SS Copenhagen (1907)

TSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.[1]

History
United Kingdom
NameTSS Copenhagen
OperatorGreat Eastern Railway
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
RouteHarwich to Hook of Holland
BuilderJohn Brown, Clydebank
Yard number384
Launched22 October 1907
FateTorpedoed and sunk, 5 March 1917
General characteristics
Tonnage2,570 gross register tons (GRT)
Length331.3 feet (101.0 m)
Beam43 feet (13 m)
Depth17.9 feet (5.5 m)
Speed22 knots

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907.[2] She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.

She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.[3]

On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of the Noord Hinder Lightship by SM UC-61 with the loss of six lives.[4]

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "A New Railway Steamship. Launch from the Clydebank Yard". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 23 October 1907. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
  4. "Copenhagen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
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