TSS Gertrude (1906)

TSS Gertrude was a passenger vessel built for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1906.[1]

Gertrude in 1906
History
Name:
  • 1906-1932:TSS Gertrude
  • 1932-????:TSS Rochester Queen
  • ????-1949:Caid
  • 1949-1962:Djebel Derif
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: A.W. Robertson and Company
Launched: 1906
Out of service: 1962
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 255 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 125 feet (38 m)
Beam: 26.6 feet (8.1 m)
Draught: 8.4 feet (2.6 m)

History

TSS Tilbury was built by A.W. Robertson and Company for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as a Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry. She was launched in 1906.

She was acquired by the Midland Railway in 1912 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. She was sold in 1932 to the New Medway Steam Packet Company and renamed Rochester Queen. She was sold again to M.H. Bland in Gibraltar and renamed Caid. In 1949 she was renamed Djebel Derif and was scrapped in 1922.[2]

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References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets-Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 118. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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