SS Lorina (1918)

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History
NameTSS Lorina
Operator
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
BuilderWilliam Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Yard number1021
Launched12 August 1918
Out of service29 May 1940
FateBombed and sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage1,457  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length291.3 feet (88.8 m)
Beam36.1 feet (11.0 m)

TSS Lorina was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1918. [1]

History

She was built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 12 August 1918 and later converted into a troopship by Caledon Shipyards in Dundee. After an initial role as a troop ship, the railway company deployed her in March 1920 as a passenger ferry to and from the Channel Islands.

In 1923, the TSS Lorina was acquired by the Southern Railway. On 27 August 1927 when leaving Guernsey, she collided with a motor fishing boat in St Peter Port. The fishing boat sank within two minutes and one of the fishermen drowned. [2] On 23 October 1935 she struck the Platte Rock near St Helier harbour but there were no casualties. [3]

Lorina was ordered to sail from Southampton to Dover in 1940 after the start of Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation. On 29 May 1940 she was dive-bombed by Luftwaffe aircraft while off Dunkirk and sank with the loss of eight crew. [4] Two days later the wreck was boarded by men from the destroyer HMS Winchelsea who lowered undamaged lifeboats from the Lorina's davits and used them to ferry troops from the beaches.

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References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ↑ "Man drowned in collision with steamer" . Yorkshire Evening Post. England. 24 August 1927. Retrieved 1 December 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Jersey Steamer Holed" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 24 October 1935. Retrieved 1 December 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "SS Lorina (+1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 10 November 2011.

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