TrSS St Patrick (1906)

TrSS St Patrick was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1906.[1]

St. Patrick at Rosslare Harbour, c.1910
History
United Kingdom
Name:	1906-1929: TrSS St Patrick
Operator:	1906-1929: Great Western Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	John Brown and Company
Yard number:	371
Launched:	24 February 1906
Out of service:	7 April 1929
Fate:	Destroyed by fire, 7 April 1929
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,531 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	350 feet (110 m)
Beam:	41 feet (12 m)
Propulsion:	Triple-screw with Parsons’ direct-drive turbines
Speed:	23 knots

History

She was built by John Brown and Company for the Great Western Railway as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS St George and TrSS St David.[2]

From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War.

On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship TrSS St David in Fishguard harbour.[3]

She was re-engined in 1926[4] and caught fire on 7 April 1929.[5] The fire was attributed to an electrical fault following which she was scrapped.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Irish Channel Steamers". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. Manchester. 15 January 1906. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "Irish Mail Boats in Collision Outside FIshguard". Derby Daily Telegraph. Derby. 20 August 1927. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5135-4.
5. "Steamer ablaze at FIshguard". Western Daily Press. England. 8 April 1929. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.