TSS Great Western (1901)

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History
Name
  • 1902-1933: TSS Great Western
  • 1933: GWR. No. 20
Operator1902-1933: Great Western Railway
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder Laird Brothers, Birkenhead
Yard number649
Launched12 December 1901
Out of service1933
FateScrapped by John Cashmore, Newport, Monmouthshire
General characteristics
Tonnage1,339  GRT

TSS Great Western was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1902. [1]

History

She was built by Laird Brothers in Birkenhead for the Great Western Railway as a twin-screw steamer for the Irish Sea ferry service between Milford Haven and Waterford. [2] She was a sister ship to TSS Great Southern.

Later in her career she operated occasionally from Weymouth.

In 1931 it was reported that she achieved a record crossing from Fishguard to Waterford, maintaining an average speed of 19.9 knots. [3]

In 1933 she was succeeded by a new ship of the same name, TSS Great Western and was renamed G.W.R. No. 20 until sold for scrapping by John Cashmore of Newport, Monmouthshire.

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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. ↑ "New G.W.R Boats" . Western Times. England. 24 April 1902. Retrieved 10 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "The Great Western Railway's steamer Great Western..." . Hull Daily Mail. Hull. 30 December 1931. Retrieved 10 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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