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Ownership
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1911 Great Central Railway Company
(08/1914 - 01/1919 detained in Germany)
1923 LNER
1948 British Transport Commission
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Capacity
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100 1st class, 10 2nd class and 300 emigrant class.
Post-1945, 12 passengers only.
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Routes
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Grimsby to Continental ports
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Shipbuilder
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Earle's Ship Building & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull (yard no. 569)
Launched
03/11/1910
Completed 01/1911
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Dimensions
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GRT: 1634grt
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Length: 265ft.
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Beam: 36ft.
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Engine builder
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Earle's Ship Building & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull
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Propulsion
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Steam triple expansion, 22", 35", 60" x 42", 309NHP.
Single screw, 13 knots.
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Notes
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She was at Hamburg when war started in August 1914 and
by 1915 was requisitioned into the Imperial German Navy as an
accommodation ship for naval pilots at
Wilhelmshaven, being returned to the G.C.R. in
January 1919, when she restarted the Rotterdam service, and
from 1935 Hamburg
again.
September 1939 saw her on cargo services before
being sent to Blyth in June 1940 as an
intended blockship in the event of a German invasion.
In late 1941 she was fitted out as a Convoy Rescue
Ship, making her first sailing in the December. This role continued
until June 1945 by which time she had made 23 voyages across the Atlantic or to Gibraltar
and rescued 237 people.
1947 saw her on the Hull - Rotterdam service opposite MELROSE ABBEY,
receiving upgraded accommodation in 1956 but she was withdrawn in May
1958 after the arrival of the new BOLTON ABBEY and arrived at Nieuw
Lekkerland for breaking on
1 July 1958.
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