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SS Copenhagen (1907)

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Name
  
TrSS Copenhagen

Yard number
  
384

Length
  
101 m

Beam
  
13 m

Operator
  
Great Eastern Railway

Launched
  
22 October 1907

Depth
  
5.46 m

Builder
  
Clydebank

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Route
  
Harwich to Hook of Holland

Fate
  
Torpedoed and sunk 5 March 1917

Tonnage
  
2,570 gross register tons (GRT)

TrSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907. She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.

She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.

On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of the Noord Hinder Lightship by SM UC-61 with the loss of six lives.

References

SS Copenhagen (1907) Wikipedia