RMS Antwerp (1919)

History
Name:	TSS Antwerp
Operator:	1920-1923:Great Eastern Railway 1923-1948:London and North Eastern Railway 1948-1951:British Railways
Port of registry:
Route:	Harwich to Antwerp
Builder:	John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number:	493
Launched:	26 October 1919
Out of service:	4 May 1951
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,957 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	330 feet (100 m)
Beam:	43 feet (13 m)
Draught:	18 feet (5.5 m)

TSS Antwerp was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1919.^[1]

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 26 October 1919.^[2] She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.^[3]

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway. On 20 November 1932 she collided with the American steamer Hastings in a thick fog off Zeebrugge, but was only lightly damaged, and able to continue her voyage.^[4]

She served as a Q-ship in World War I.^[5]

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948 and scrapped in 1951.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
2. "A geared turbine steamer". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 31 October 1919. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
3. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0 946378 22 3.
4. "Steamers collide in fog". Edinburgh Evening News. Scotland. 21 November 1932. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
5. Gibson, R. H.; Prendergast, Maurice (2002). German Submarine War 1914–1918. Periscope Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 9781904381082.