TSS Reindeer (1897)

History
Name: 1897-1928: TSS Reindeer
Operator: 1897-1928: Great Western Railway
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Naval Construction and Armaments Company, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched: 1897
Out of service: 1928
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,281 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 280 feet (85 m)
Beam: 34.4 feet (10.5 m)
Draught: 16.66 feet (5.08 m)
Installed power: 643 hp
Speed: 19.5 kts

TSS Reindeer was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1897.[1]

History

This ship was one of a pair, the other being TSS Roebuck, built by the Naval Construction and Armaments Company in Barrow-in-Furness in 1897. She was launched on 1 May 1897.[2]

In an inauspicious start to her career, she collided with the Brodick Castle in Weymouth Harbour on 3 September 1897.[3]

She was put in reserve in 1925 when new steamers St Julien and St Helier arrived. She continued in occasional service, and on 12 March 1926 struck the entrance to Jersey Harbour.[4] She was cut up at Briton Ferry in 1928.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  2. ↑ "Launch at Barrow". Liverpool Mercury. Liverpool. 3 May 1897. Retrieved 14 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ "Collision". The Star. England. 7 September 1897. Retrieved 14 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ "G.W.R. Steamer's Mishap.". Gloucester Citizen. Gloucester. 12 March 1926. Retrieved 14 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  5. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5135-4.
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