TSS Sir Francis Drake (1908)

Men unloading mail from the Sir Francis Drake at Millbay Docks, Plymouth in 1926
History
Name: 1908-1954: TSS Sir Francis Drake
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number: 682
Launched: 1908
Out of service: 1954
Fate: Scrapped in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth
General characteristics
Tonnage: 478 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 151.5 feet (46.2 m)
Beam: 38.5 feet (11.7 m)
Draught: 9 feet (2.7 m)
Depth: 14.6 feet (4.5 m)

TSS Sir Francis Drake was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908.[1]

History

TSS Sir Francis Drake was built by Cammell Laird as one of a pair of vessels, with TSS Sir Walter Raleigh. She operated as a tender in Plymouth for 46 years and also sometimes at Fishguard.

She was hired to the Admiralty as a tug from 1914 to 1919. In August 1939 she was again hired to the Admiralty for use at Plymouth and later at Scapa Flow, returning to the GWR at Plymouth in 1946. She was broken up in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, in 1954.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  2. ↑ Kittridge, Alan (1993). Plymouth – Ocean Liner Port of Call. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-30-4.
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