SS Bruges (1920)

TSS Bruges was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1920.[1]

History
Name: TSS Bruges
Operator:
Port of registry:
Route: Harwich to Antwerp
Builder: John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number: 494
Launched: 20 March 1920
Out of service: 11 June 1940
Fate: Bombed and Sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,949 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 321.6 feet (98.0 m)
Beam: 43.1 feet (13.1 m)

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 20 March 1920.[2] She was launched by Lady Thornton

She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.[3]

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

She was requisitioned during the World War II as a troop transport ship and bombed and damaged on 11 June 1940 at Le Havre by Luftwaffe aircraft. She was beached to prevent her from sinking.[4]

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "New Railway Steamer". Cambridge Daily News. England. 22 March 1920. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. "Bruges Ferry 1920-1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
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