SS Trent

History
UK
Name: Trent
Owner: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Builder: Robert Napier and Sons
Launched: 18 September 1899
Fate: Scrapped 1922
General characteristics
Tonnage: 5,525 GRT
Length: 410 feet
Installed power: steam engine

SS Trent was a steamship built at Glasgow in 1899 and used as a mailship in the North Atlantic before being requisitioned as a depot ship by the British Admiralty in 1914. It rescued the crew of the airship America in their failed first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air in 1910.[1]

Passengers aboard SS Trent in 1902

References

  1. ↑ Unknown. "Thames Tugs". Thames Tugs. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.