SS Arnhem (1946)

For other ships with the same name, see SS Arnhem.

History
United Kingdom
Name	TSS Arnhem
Operator	1946–1948: London and North Eastern Railway 1948–1968: British Railways
Port of registry
Builder	John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number	636
Launched	7 November 1946
Out of service	1968
Fate	Scrapped 1968
General characteristics
Tonnage	5,005 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	377 feet (115 m)
Beam	54 feet (16 m)
Draught	15 feet (4.6 m)

TSS Arnhem was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1946.[1]

History

The ship was built by John Brown on Clydebank and launched on 7 November 1946. She was the first in a series of ships to replace war losses, and was the first oil-fired ship ordered by the company. She had capacity for 600 passengers, and 50,000 cubic feet (1,400 m^3) of grain.[2]

In March 1953 she rescued 29 men from the Swedish ship Rigel (3,823 tons) which sank after a collision with an Italian vessel Senegal (1,650 tons) some 60 miles from Ostend.[3]

Initially she was a single class vessel but was converted for first and second classes in 1954.

She was taken over by the British Railways in 1948.

She was scrapped in 1968 by Thos. W. Ward at Inverkeithing.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Ships of the World From the Ship-Yards of Scotland". Sunday Post. Scotland. 19 June 1949. Retrieved 9 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "Survivors from Wear-built ship landed". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. England. 5 March 1953. Retrieved 9 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.