History
United Kingdom
NameTSS Copenhagen
OperatorGreat Eastern Railway
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
RouteHarwich to Hook of Holland
BuilderJohn Brown, Clydebank
Yard number384
Launched22 October 1907
FateTorpedoed and sunk, 5 March 1917
General characteristics
Tonnage2,570 gross register tons (GRT)
Length331.3 feet (101.0 m)
Beam43 feet (13 m)
Depth17.9 feet (5.5 m)
Speed22 knots

TSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.[1]

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907.[2] She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.

She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.[3]

On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of the Noord Hinder Lightship by SM UC-61 with the loss of six lives.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ↑ "A New Railway Steamship. Launch from the Clydebank Yard". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 23 October 1907. 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.
  4. ↑ "Copenhagen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
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