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TSS Great Western (1933)

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Yard number
  
998

Fate
  
Scrapped

Length
  
86 m

Builder
  
Cammell Laird

Out of service
  
1966

Launched
  
21 November 1933

Draft
  
4.9 m

Name
  
1933-1966 TSS Great Western

Operator
  
1933-1948 Great Western Railway 1948-1966 British Railways

Tonnage
  
1,600 gross register tons (GRT)

TSS Great Western was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1933.

History

She was built in 1933 to replace an earlier ship of the same name, which had operated the Fishguard to Rosslare route since 1902. She was launched on 21 November 1933 by Lady Cadman, wife of Sir John Cadman, a director of the Great Western Railway, and had an experimental type of coal firing with mechanical stokers and a forced draught system, intended to be more economical than oil.

From April to August in 1944, she acted as a troop ship, but returned to service and continued until 1966 when the service was abandoned

References

TSS Great Western (1933) Wikipedia