SS Copenhagen (1907)

History
Name:	TrSS Copenhagen
Operator:	Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry:
Route:	Harwich to Hook of Holland
Builder:	John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number:	384
Launched:	22 October 1907
Fate:	Torpedoed and sunk 5 March 1917
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,570 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	331.3 feet (101.0 m)
Beam:	43 feet (13 m)
Depth:	17.9 feet (5.5 m)
Speed:	22 knots

TrSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.^[1]

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907.^[2] She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.

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

On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of the Noord Hinder Lightship by SM UC-61 with the loss of six lives.^[4]

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
2. "A New Railway Steamship. Launch from the Clydebank Yard". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 23 October 1907. 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. "Copenhagen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.