SS Immingham (1906) explained

TrSS Immingham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.^[1]

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter of Wallsend and launched on 8 May 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being .

The Parsons steam turbines of Immingham and Marylebone were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each reduced in number from two to one.

She was requisitioned in 1915 by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use as a stores carrier and renamed HMS Immingham. She sank on 6 June 1915 after a collision with the boom defence vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.^[2]

The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre has in its collection a painting by A.J. Jansen of Immingham as a single-screw steamer.

Notes and References

1. Book: Duckworth . Christian Leslie Dyce . Langmuir . Graham Easton . 1968 . Railway and other Steamers . English . Prescot, Lancashire . T. Stephenson and Sons .
2. Web site: BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA Part 1 of 2 - Abadol (oiler) to Lynx (destroyer) . Naval History . 2 February 2013.