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Name: | 1904-1927: TSS Slievemore |
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Route: | 1904-1927: Holyhead - Dublin |
Builder: | Harland and Wolff |
Yard number: | 362 [1] |
Launched: | 1904 |
Completed: | 17 October 1904 [1] |
Out of service: | 1932 |
Fate: | Scrapped 1932 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage: | 1,138 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length: | 299.8 ft (91.4 m) |
Beam: | 37.2 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught: | 15.7 ft (4.8 m) |
TSS Slievemore was a twin screw steamer passenger and cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1904 to 1923, and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923 to 1932. [2]
The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the world.
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four. The companies merged into the LMS included the London and North Western Railway, Midland Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, several Scottish railway companies, and numerous other, smaller ventures.
She was built by Harland and Wolff of Belfast for the London and North Western Railway in 1904.
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Her Captain, Samuel David Pritchard, was awarded an MBE in 1920 in recognition of his services at sea during the First World War.
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