SS City of Leeds (1903)

SS City of Leeds was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1912.[1]

SS City of Leeds, by A. J. Jansen
History
Name: SS City of Leeds
Operator:
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 8 June 1903
Out of service: 1936
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,341 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 256.5 feet (78.2 m)
Beam: 34.5 feet (10.5 m)
Depth: 15.7 feet (4.8 m)

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 8 June 1903[2] by the Lady Mayoress of Leeds. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being City of Bradford.

In 1914 on arrival in Hamburg and being unaware of the outbreak of war, she was intercepted and taken as a prize. Captain Lundie and the crew were held prisoner until the end of the war and only returned to England in 1918.[3] She was recovered by British forces in January 1919 and returned to Grimsby.

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway, and in 1935 to the Associated Humber Lines. She was surplus to requirements and scrapped in 1936.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Relations with the West Riding". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 9 June 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "Return of Prisoners of War". Lancashire Evening Post. England. 27 November 1918. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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