Whitby Abbey

Ownership

1908 - 1936 Hull & Netherlands S.S. Co. Ltd., Hull
(02/1915 - 12/1919 Admiralty requisition)

Capacity

44 x 1^st, 28 2^nd and 44 steerage class
1000 tons cargo

Routes

Hull to Rotterdam

Shipbuilder

William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool (yard no. 755)
Launched 05/12/1907;   Completed 06/1908

Dimensions

GRT: 1183grt

Length: 255.2ft

Beam: 33.7ft.

Engine builder

Central Marine Engine Works, Hartlepool

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion 25.5, 40.5 & 67 x 42ins., 504hp, 15 knots

Notes

Requisitioned by the Admiralty 02/1915 - 12/1919 and commissioned as an Armed Boarding Steamer, she served in the Gallipoli campaign.
Under Associated Humber Lines management from 1935.
Broken up at Blyth where she arrived on 13/02/1936.