SS Munich (1908)

TrSS Munich was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1908.[1]

HMHS St Denis, by Alfred Jensen
History
Name
  • 1908-1915:TrSS Munich
  • 1915-1940:TrSS St Denis
  • 1940-1950:TrSS Barbara
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
RouteHarwich to Antwerp
BuilderJohn Brown, Clydebank
Yard number384
Launched25 August 1908
FateScrapped 2 March 1950
General characteristics
Tonnage2,570 gross register tons (GRT)
Length331 feet (101 m)
Beam43.2 feet (13.2 m)

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 25 August 1908.[2] She was launched by Miss Lawson, daughter of Sir Arthur Tredgold Lawson, Baronet, director of the Great Easter Railway.

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

She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914 and converted as a hospital ship and renamed St Denis. At the end of the war she returned to railway control but retained her new name.

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway.

She was relegated to relief and secondary services in 1932. In 1940 she was scuttled when cornered in Amsterdam. Having been raised by the Germans, she had her name changed to Barbara and was found in Kiel in 1945 where she served as an accommodation ship for Kiel University.[4]

In 1950 she was towed to Thomas Young and Sons in Sunderland and scrapped.[5]

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "A new turbine steamer". Gloucestershire Chronicle. England. 29 August 1908. 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. "Ex P.O.W. Barbara arrives in Wear". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. England. 2 March 1950. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. 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.
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