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(Text) CC BY-SA