Yard number 682 Launched 1908 Depth 4.45 m Beam 12 m | Out of service 1954 Length 46 m Draft 2.7 m Builder Cammell Laird | |
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Name 1908-1954 TSS Sir Francis Drake Operator 1908-1948 Great Western Railway
1948-1954 British Railways Fate Scrapped in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth Tonnage 478 gross register tons (GRT) | ||
TSS Sir Francis Drake was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908.
History
TSS Sir Francis Drake was built by Cammell Laird as one of a pair of vessels, with TSS Sir Walter Raleigh. She operated as a tender in Plymouth for 46 years and also sometimes at Fishguard.
She was hired to the Admiralty as a tug from 1914 to 1919. In August 1939 she was again hired to the Admiralty for use at Plymouth and later at Scapa Flow, returning to the GWR at Plymouth in 1946. She was broken up in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, in 1954.
References
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