TSS Gazelle (1889)

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History
Name: 1889-1925: TSS Gazelle
Operator: 1889-1925: Great Western Railway
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Laird Brothers, Birkenhead
Yard number: 573
Launched: 1889
Out of service: 1925
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 880  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 235 ft (72 m)
Beam: 27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Depth: 14 ft (4.3 m)

TSS Gazelle was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1889. [1]

Great Western Railway Former railway company in the United Kingdom

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the West Midlands, and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who chose a broad gauge of 7 ft —later slightly widened to 7 ft 1⁄4 in —but, from 1854, a series of amalgamations saw it also operate 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in standard-gauge trains; the last broad-gauge services were operated in 1892. The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally merged at the end of 1947 when it was nationalised and became the Western Region of British Railways.

History

She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead as one of a trio of new ships for the Great Western Railway as a twin-screw steamer for the Channel Island Services. The other ships were TSS Antelope and TSS Lynx.

TSS Antelope was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1889.

TSS Lynx was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1889.

In 1907 most of the passenger accommodation was removed and she was then operated on cargo services.

She served as a minesweeper in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I and was finally broken up after 36 years service in 1925. [2]

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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. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN   0-7153-5135-4.
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