Name TSS Antwerp Builder John Brown, Clydebank Out of service 4 May 1951 Length 101 m | Route Harwich to Antwerp Yard number 493 Launched 26 October 1919 Draft 5.5 m | |
Operator 1920-1923Great Eastern Railway1923-1948London and North Eastern Railway1948-1951British Railways | ||
TSS Antwerp was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1919.
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. She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.
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.
She served as a Q-ship in World War I.
She was acquired by British Railways in 1948 and scrapped in 1951.
References
RMS Antwerp (1919) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA