Name SS Bertha Beam 28.1 feet (8.6 m) Length 53 m | Yard number 219 Launched 9 November 1905 Draft 3.78 m | |
Operator 1905-1923London and South Western Railway
1923-1933Southern Railway Builder Gourlay Brothers, Dundee Tonnage 528 gross register tons (GRT) | ||
SS Bertha was a cargo vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1905.
History
She was built by Gourlay Brothers in Dundee and launched on 9 November 1905 by Miss Key, daughter of one of the railway superintendents. She was the second of a pair of vessels ordered by the London and South Western Railway, the other being Ada. She was built for light cargo traffic between Southampton and the Channel Islands.
She was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1923.
She was sold in 1933 to Metal Industries, Limited of Rosyth and used as a salvage vessel in raising some members of the German Fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow.
References
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