RMS Antwerp, by A. J. Jansen
History
NameTSS Antwerp
Operator
RouteHarwich to Antwerp
BuilderJohn Brown, Clydebank
Yard number493
Launched26 October 1919
Out of service4 May 1951
FateScrapped 1951
General characteristics
Tonnage2,957 gross register tons (GRT)
Length330 feet (100 m)
Beam43 feet (13 m)
Draught18 feet (5.5 m)

TSS Antwerp was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1919.[1]

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 26 October 1919.[2] She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.[3]

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway. On 20 November 1932 she collided with the American steamer Hastings in a thick fog off Zeebrugge, but was only lightly damaged, and able to continue her voyage.[4]

She served as a Q-ship in World War I.[5]

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948 and scrapped in 1951.

References

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "A geared turbine steamer". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 31 October 1919. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
  4. ^ "Steamers collide in fog". Edinburgh Evening News. Scotland. 21 November 1932. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ Gibson, R. H.; Prendergast, Maurice (2002). German Submarine War 1914–1918. Periscope Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 9781904381082.
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