SS Arnhem (1946)
TSS Arnhem was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1946.[1]
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| Name: | TSS Arnhem |
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| Builder: | John Brown, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 636 |
| Launched: | 7 November 1946 |
| Out of service: | 1968 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
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| Tonnage: | 5,005 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 377 feet (115 m) |
| Beam: | 54 feet (16 m) |
| Draught: | 15 feet (4.6 m) |
History
The ship was built by John Brown on Clydebank and launched on 7 November 1946. She was the first in a series of ships to replace war losses, and was the first oil-fired ship ordered by the company. She had capacity for 600 passengers, and 50,000 cubic feet (1,400 m3) of grain.[2]
In March 1953 she rescued 29 men from the Swedish ship Rigel (3,823 tons) which sank after a collision with an Italian vessel Senegal (1,650 tons) some 60 miles from Ostend.[3]
Initially she was a single class vessel but was converted for first and second classes in 1954.
She was taken over by the British Railways in 1948.
She was scrapped in 1968 by Thos W Ward at Inverkeithing.
References
- Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- "Ships of the World From the Ship-Yards of Scotland". Sunday Post. Scotland. 19 June 1949. Retrieved 9 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Survivors from Wear-built ship landed". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. England. 5 March 1953. Retrieved 9 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.