TSS Duke of Albany

TSS Duke of Albany
Career
Name: TSS Duke of Albany
Owner: 1907-1917: London and North Western Railway
Operator: 1907-1914: London and North Western Railway
1914-1917:Royal Navy
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Route: 1907-1914:BelfastFleetwood
Builder: John Brown & Company
Yard number: 376
Launched: June 1907
Out of service: 1916
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk on 25 August 1916
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,180 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 330.5 ft (100.7 m)
Beam: 41.1 ft (12.5 m)
Draught: 17.1 ft (5.2 m)
Speed: 22.5 knots

TSS Duke of Albany was a passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1907 to 1914.[1] and also as HMS Duke of Albany from 1914 to 1916.

History

She was built at Cammell Laird, as part of a fleet of seven ships delivered by the company between 1892 and 1909. She operated on the Douglas to Heysham route but was requisitioned by the Admiralty in the First World War and sunk on 25 August 1916 by U-27, 20 miles east of the Pentland Skerries.

References

  1. ^ Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962

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