TrSS ''Immingham'' was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the
Great Central Railway in 1906.
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
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Buildings
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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
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A net layer's primary function was to lay and maintain steel anti-torpedo or anti-submarine nets. Nets could be laid ...
in the
Mediterranean Sea.
The
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
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has in its collection a painting by A.J. Jansen of ''Immingham'' as a single-screw steamer.
References
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1906 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Tyne
Ships of the Great Central Railway
World War I auxiliary ships of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in 1915
Ships sunk in collisions
World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea