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Ownership
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1908 Great Eastern Railway Company
1923 LNER
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Capacity
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320 1st class, 130 2nd class
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Routes
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Harwich - Hoek van Holland
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Shipbuilder
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John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank (yard no. 384)
Launched 25/08/1908 Completed 10/1908
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Dimensions
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GRT: 2435
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Length: 331ft
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Beam: 43.2ft
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Engine builder
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John Brown & Co. Ltd.,
Clydebank
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Propulsion
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3 sets of Parsons steam turbines, 1325NHP, triple
screws, 20 knots
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Notes
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Sister to COPENHAGEN (lost in 1917) and ST. PETERSBURG (later ARCHANGEL). Served as a hospital ship from 1914 to 1919.
Renamed ST. DENIS in 1915. Sent to Rotterdam to pick up British civilians in
May 1940, she was scuttled and abandoned after bombing damage as the
German forces advanced, her crew being rescued by fleet-mate
MALINES. She was refloated and renamed BARBARA as an
intended conversion to a minelayer, but due to damaged machinery she was
used only for accommodation as ‘Schiff 52’ at
Cuxhaven
and Kiel.
This role continued under Allied forces at Kiel from 1945 until 1949,
housing refugees and students of Kiel University. Towed back to
Sunderland
for scrapping, where she arrived 2 March 1950.
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