TSS Duchess of Devonshire (1897)

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History
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Name
  • 1897–1928: Duchess of Devonshire
  • 1928–1949: Gibel Dersa
Operator
Port of registry
BuilderNaval and Armament Construction Company, Barrow
Yard number255
Launched21 January 1897
CompletedMarch 1897
Maiden voyage9 April 1897
Out of service1949
FateScrapped 1949
General characteristics
Tonnage1,265  GRT, 543  NRT
Length300 feet (91 m)
Beam35.1 feet (10.7 m)
Draught15.7 feet (4.8 m)
Decks2
Installed power273 NHP
Propulsion
Speed18 knots (33 km/h)
Capacity1,250 passengers

TSS Duchess of Devonshire was a passenger ship built for the Barrow Steam Navigation Company in 1897. [1]

History

The Naval and Armament Construction Company of Barrow built Duchess of Devonshire as yard number 255 for the Barrow Steam Navigation Company. [2] She was launched on 21 January 1897 by Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. [3]

She had four decks – lower, main, promenade and shade. First class accommodation was amidships, with sleeping berths for 124 passengers. The promenade deck had fourteen staterooms, a smokeroom and bar, and first-class entrance, with staircase descending to the dining saloon on the main deck. The ladies’ saloon and staterooms were on the lower deck.

Her maiden voyage from Barrow to Belfast was on 9 April 1897 [4] under the command of Captain Myerscough, in a journey time of just under six hours.

The Midland Railway bought her in 1907 [5]

In 1914 the Admiralty requisitioned her and had her converted into an armed boarding steamer. In 1919 she suffered a boiler explosion which killed three people. On 25 September 1922 she was involved in a minor collision with the coasting steamer Trevor which was between Laxey and Douglas. [6]

In 1923 she passed to the London Midland and Scottish Railway, who in 1928 sold her to Bland Line of Gibraltar who renamed her Gibel Dersa. She was requisitioned in 1941. The Dalhousie Steam and Motor Ship Company of London bought her in 1943, and sold her in 1947 to A Benjamin and Company of Gibraltar. She was scrapped in 1949 at Malaga.

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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. "Duchess of Devonshire". Shipping and Shipbuilding. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  3. "The Barrow Route to England. Launch of a new steamer. Interesting proceedings" . Belfast News-Letter. Belfast. 22 January 1897. Retrieved 17 October 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "The Barrow Route to England" . Belfast News-Letter. Belfast. 10 April 1897. Retrieved 17 October 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets-Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 118. ISBN   0-946378-22-3.
  6. "I.O.M. Steamer in Collision" . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. Leeds. 26 September 1922. Retrieved 17 October 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.