TSS St David (1931)

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History
Name1932-1944: TSS St David
Operator1932-1944: Great Western Railway
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number985
Launched10 December 1931
Completed1932
FateSunk 24 January 1944
General characteristics
Tonnage800  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length327.2 feet (99.7 m)
Beam46.7 feet (14.2 m)
Draught17.7 feet (5.4 m)
Speed21 kts

TSS St David was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1931. [1]

History

TSS St David was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead as one of a pair of new passenger vessels, the other being TSS St Andrew, and launched on 10 December 1931 by Viscountess Churchill, wife of the chairman of the Great Western Railway. [2] She was set to work on the Fishguard to Rosslare service in replacement of her namesake St David of 1906.

She was requisitioned during the Second World War, and served as a hospital ship. She took part in the Dunkirk Evacuation, but was sunk on 24 January 1944 in the Mediterranean Sea off Anzio, Lazio, Italy. [3] At the time she was loaded with wounded soldiers. Although well-marked and lit in accordance with the laws of war, the ship was sunk by German aircraft. Of the 229 people aboard, 96 were killed. [4]

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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 Railway Steamer" . Hartlepool Mail. Hartlepool. 10 December 1931. Retrieved 15 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Sinking Of Hospital Ship". The Times. No. 49765. London. 28 January 1944. col E, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Atkinson, Rick (2 October 2007). The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2). 7359: Henry Holt and Co.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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