Yard number 1206 Out of service 1964 Length 61 m Beam 10 m | Completed June 1925 Launched 1925 Draft 3.16 m Builder Swan Hunter | |
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Name 1925-1942 TSS Sambur
1942-1945 TSS Toreador
1945-1964 TSS Sambur Operator 1925-1948 Great Western Railway
1948-1965 British Railways Route 1925-1942 & 1945-1964 Weymouth - Channel Isles | ||
TSS Sambur was a cargo vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1925.
History
TSS Sambur was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson as one of a pair of new cargo vessels, the other being TSS Roebuck, and launched in 1925. She was put to work on freight services between the Channel Islands and Weymouth.
in June 1940 she was sent with her sister ship Roebuck to Saint-Valery-en-Caux to assist in the evacuation of the 51st Highland Division. However, by the time they arrived the Germans were already in control of the port and both ships were damaged by gunfire. Subsequently she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for work as a barrage balloon ship in the River Thames and English Channel. In 1942 she was renamed Toreador. She returned to railway service after the war and resumed operation at Weymouth in September 1945 and in 1948 was taken over by British Railways.
She was scrapped in 1964.