TSS Gertrude was a passenger vessel launched for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1905.[1]
.jpg) Gertrude in 1906
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| Name |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | A. W. Robertson and Company |
| Launched | 19 October 1905 |
| Out of service | 1962 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 255 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 125 feet (38 m) |
| Beam | 26.6 feet (8.1 m) |
| Draught | 8.4 feet (2.6 m) |
History
editGertrude was built by A. W. Robertson and Company for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as a Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry. She was launched in 1905.
She was acquired by the Midland Railway in 1912 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. She was sold in 1932 to the New Medway Steam Packet Company and renamed Rochester Queen. She was sold again to M.H. Bland in Gibraltar and renamed Caid. In 1949 she was renamed Djebel Derif and was scrapped in 1962.[2]
References
edit- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets-Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 118. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.