SS ''Kilkenny'' was a passenger vessel built for the
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company
The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company was a shipping line established in 1823. It served cross-channel routes between Britain and Ireland for over a century. For 70 of those years it transported the mail. It was 'wound-up' by a select commit ...
in 1903.
History
The ship was built by the Clyde Shipbuilding Company in Port Glasgow for the
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company
The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company was a shipping line established in 1823. It served cross-channel routes between Britain and Ireland for over a century. For 70 of those years it transported the mail. It was 'wound-up' by a select commit ...
and launched on 30 December 1903. She was placed on the Liverpool to Dublin service.
In 1917 she was purchased by the
Great Eastern Railway and in 1919 renamed SS ''Frinton''. She was then acquired by the
London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. She was sold in 1927 to Samos Steam Navigation Company in London and again in 1928 to D Inglessi Fils SA de Navigation, Samos.
She was bombed by Luftwaffe aircraft at
Megara during the German invasion of Greece and sunk on 22 April 1941.
References
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1903 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Clyde
Ships of the Great Eastern Railway
Maritime incidents in April 1941
Ships sunk by German aircraft
World War II shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea