St. Petersburg / Archangel

Ownership

1910 Great Eastern Railway Company
1923 LNER

Capacity

320 1^st class, 130 2^nd class

Routes

Harwich - Hoek van Holland (later Zeebrugge)

Shipbuilder

John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank (yard no. 397)
Launched 25/04/1910 Completed 07/1910

Dimensions

GRT: 2448

Length: 330.8ft.

Beam: 43.2ft.

Engine builder

John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank

Propulsion

3 sets of Parsons steam turbines, 1325NHP, triple screws, 20 knots.

Notes

Sister to MUNICH and COPENHAGEN. Renamed ARCHANGEL in 1915.

Engaged in trooping voyages from Southampton to French ports from 09/1939, and in June 1940 assisted the evacuations from St. Valery, Cherbourg and Jersey. Bombed on 16 May 1941 in 57.55N 02.03W and beached and broke up 5 miles south of Newburgh, while on a trooping voyage from Kirkwall to Aberdeen.