SS Cambridge (1886)

History
Name:	1886-1919:TSS Cambridge 1919-1922:TSS Gul Nehad 1922-1937:TSS Gulnihal
Operator:	1886-1912:Great Eastern Railway 1912-1919:Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company 1919-1922:Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantiople 1922-1937:?
Port of registry:
Route:	1886-1912:Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp
Builder:	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched:	11 October 1886
Out of service:	1937
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	1,194 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	280.5 feet (85.5 m)
Beam:	31 feet (9.4 m)
Depth:	15.2 feet (4.6 m)
Speed:	14.5 knots

TSS Cambridge was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1886.^[1]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 11 October 1886.^[2] She was launched by the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. W. B. Redfern), accompanied by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Deck).

She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.^[3]

She was sold in 1912 to the Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company. In 1919 she was acquired by the Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople and renamed Gul Nehad. She was sold again in 1922 and renamed Gulnihad. She was scrapped in 1937.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
2. "Launch of the steamship "Cambridge"". Cambridge Independent Press. England. 16 October 1886. Retrieved 30 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.