Operator Great Central Railway Installed power 1300 nhp Length 83 m Beam 13 m | Yard number 769 Launched 8 May 1906 Depth 6.22 m Builder Swan Hunter | |
Name 1906-1915TrSS Immingham
1915HMS Immingham Fate Sunk in collision 6 June 1915 Tonnage 2,009 gross register tons (GRT) | ||
TrSS Immingham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.
History
The ship was built by Swan Hunter of Wallsend and launched on 8 May 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being Marylebone.
She was requisitioned in 1915 by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use as a stores carrier and renamed HMS Immingham. She sank on 6 June 1915 after a collision with the boom defence vessel HMS Reindeer in the Mediterranean Sea.
References
SS Immingham (1906) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA