TrSS St Andrew (1908)

History
Name
  • 1908–1932: TrSS St Andrew
  • 1932–1933: TrSS Fishguard
Operator1908–1933: Great Western Railway
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderJohn Brown, Clydebank
Yard number382
Launched1908
Out of service1933
FateScrapped September 1933
General characteristics
Tonnage2,528 gross register tons (GRT)
Length351.1 feet (107.0 m)
Beam41.1 feet (12.5 m)
Propulsion3 direct drive steam turbines
Speed20 kts

TrSS St Andrew was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908.[1]

History

TrSS St Andrew was built by John Brown to augment the three new ships of 1906, the TrSS St David, TrSS St George and the TrSS St Patrick acquired for the Fishguard to Rosslare service.

In 1910 she was in a heavy sea on a voyage between Fishguard and Douglas, and a member of crew, Thomas O’Neill of Waterford was thrown overboard and drowned.[2]

During the First World War she was used as a hospital ship. In 1932 she was renamed Fishguard, to free up her name for a replacement TSS St Andrew, and was scrapped in 1933.

References

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "Sailor Drowned". Aberdeen Journal. Aberdeen. 29 August 1910. Retrieved 15 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.