TSS Roebuck (1925)

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History
Name
  • 1925-1940: TSS Roebuck
  • 1940-1945: TSS Roebuck II
  • 1945-1965: TSS Roebuck
Operator
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson
Yard number1204
Launched24 March 1925
CompletedApril 1925
Out of service1965
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage769  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length201.2 feet (61.3 m)
Beam33.7 feet (10.3 m)
Draught1,015.36 feet (309.48 m)
Speed12 kts

TSS Roebuck was a cargo vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1925. [1]

History

TSS Roebuck was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson as one of a pair of new cargo vessels, the other being Sambur, and launched on 24 March 1925. She was put to work on freight services between the Channel Islands and Weymouth. [2]

In May 1940 she took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, making one trip to the beachhead and evacuating 600 men, including many injured. Then in June she was sent with her sister ship Sambur to Saint-Valery-en-Caux to assist in the evacuation of the 51st Highland Division. However, by the time they arrived the Germans were already in control of the port and both ships were damaged by gunfire. [3] In October 1940 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a barrage balloon vessel in the Thames and around northern France and renamed Roebuck II. She returned to railway service after the war and resumed operation at Weymouth and in 1948 was taken over by British Railways.

In November 1964 she was disguised as the Norwegian SS Galtesund for a film, [4] The Heroes of Telemark .

She continued in service until 27 February 1965, and was scrapped later the same year.

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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. ↑ "Potato and Tomato Traffic" . Western Gazette. England. 5 June 1925. Retrieved 15 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN   0-7153-5135-4.
  4. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN   0-7153-5135-4.
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