SS Immingham (1906)

TrSS Immingham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.[1]

The Immingham, by A. J. Jansen
History
Name
  • 1906-1915:TrSS Immingham
  • 1915:HMS Immingham
OperatorGreat Central Railway
BuilderSwan Hunter, Wallsend
Yard number769
Launched8 May 1906
FateSunk in collision 6 June 1915
General characteristics
Tonnage2,009 gross register tons (GRT)
Length271 feet (83 m)
Beam41.2 feet (12.6 m)
Depth20.4 feet (6.2 m)
Installed power1300 nhp
Propulsion3 Parsons steam turbines

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter of Wallsend and launched on 8 May 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being Marylebone.

The Parsons steam turbines of Immingham and Marylebone were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each reduced in number from two to one.

She was requisitioned in 1915 by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use as a stores carrier and renamed HMS Immingham. She sank on 6 June 1915 after a collision with the boom defence vessel HMS Reindeer in the Mediterranean Sea.[2]

The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre has in its collection a painting by A.J. Jansen of Immingham as a single-screw steamer.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA Part 1 of 2 - Abadol (oiler) to Lynx (destroyer)". Naval History. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
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