Ordered January 1907 Fate Unknown Launched 26 April 1907 Draft 5.03 m | Laid down 29 January 1907 Construction started 29 January 1907 Length 52 m | |
Name 1907-1915 TSS Atalanta1915-1919 TSS Atalanta III1919- TSS Atalanta Operator 1907-1910 London and South Western Railway1910-1923 Great Western Railway1923- Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Builder Gourlay Brothers, Dundee | ||
TSS Atalanta was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1907.
History
She was built by Gourlay Brothers in Dundee for the London and South Western Railway. She was launched on 26 April 1907 by Miss Drummond, daughter of Mr Drummond, chief engineer of the Highland Railway Company, in the presence of her father and Mr. Douglas Drummond, chief engineer of the London and South Western Railway Company; Mr Drummond, jun. She was employed as a tender until 1910 when she was sold to the Great Western Railway. In 1913 she was in collision with a submerged rock near Bolt Head in Devon, when she was on an excursion trip from Plymouth to Torquay.
During the First World War she was hired by the Admiralty and used as a rescue tug around the Isles of Scilly. She was renamed Atalanta III.
She returned to Plymouth after the war but was laid up out of use until sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in 1923 who purchased her as a tender for Bermuda.