Yard number 727 Fate Scrapped Length 101 m | Out of service 1937 Launched 29 April 1904 | |
Name 1904-1927TrSS Londonderry
1927-1937TrSS Flamand Operator 1904-1923Midland Railway
1923-1927London Midland and Scottish Railway
1927-1937Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement Builder William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton | ||
TrSS Londonderry was a passenger vessel built for the Midland Railway in 1904.
History
TrSS Londonderry was designed by the Messrs Bilee Gray and Co, naval architects to the Midland Railway and built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton. She was launched on 29 April 1904 by Mrs Tilney, daughter of Sir Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway. She was the first ship equipped with Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraphy.
She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914.
In 1923 she came into the ownership of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway when they acquired the Midland Railway.
In 1927 they sold her to Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement who renamed her Flamand.
She was scrapped at Altenwerder, Germany in 1937.
References
TrSS Londonderry (1904) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA