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

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.

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