SS Duke of Lancaster (1895)
..JPG) Duke of Lancaster | |
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Lancaster, United Kingdom  |
| Route: | 1894-1911: Fleetwood - Belfast |
| Builder: | Naval Construction and Armament Company Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Launched: | 1895 |
| Out of service: | 8 August 1915 |
| Fate: | Sunk by torpedo |
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| Type: | steamship |
| Tonnage: | 1,520 GT |
| Length: | 310 ft (94 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
SS Duke of Lancaster was a steamer passenger ship operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1895 to 1911.[1]
She was then sold to the Isle of Man Steam Packet company and operated as The Ramsey from 1912 to 1915.
In 1914 she was requisitioned for use as an armed boarding steamer. Commissioned as HMS The Ramsey, she was sunk by gunfire when she challenged a ship which turned out to be the auxiliary cruiser and minelayer SMS Meteor (1903) in the North Sea on 8 August 1915.
References
- ↑ Railway and other Steamers. C.L.D. Duckwork and G.E. Langmuir. Prescot, Lancashire. 1968.
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