SS Cambridge (1886)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Route | 1886–1912: Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp |
| Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull |
| Launched | 11 October 1886 |
| Out of service | 1937 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1937 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,194 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 280.5 feet (85.5 m) |
| Beam | 31 feet (9.4 m) |
| Depth | 15.2 feet (4.6 m) |
| Speed | 14.5 knots |
TSS Cambridge was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1886.[1]
History
[edit]The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 11 October 1886.[2] She was launched by the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. W. B. Redfern), accompanied by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Deck).
She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.[3]
She was sold in 1912 to the Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company. In 1919 she was acquired by the Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople and renamed Gul Nehad. She was sold again in 1922 and renamed Gulnihad. She was scrapped in 1937.
References
[edit]- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "Launch of the steamship "Cambridge"". Cambridge Independent Press. England. 16 October 1886. Retrieved 30 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ 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.