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: United Kingdom
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.
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