TSS ''St Andrew'' was a passenger vessel built for the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

in 1931.

History

TSS ''St Andrew'' was built by

Cammell Laird Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. It was formed from the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century. The company also built railway rolling stock until 1929, ...

at Birkenhead as one of a pair of new passenger vessels, the other being TSS ''St David'', and launched in November 1931. She was set to work on the Fishguard to Rosslare service in replacement of her namesake ''St Andrew'' of 1908. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in the Second World War as a hospital ship, taking part in the

evacuation of Dunkirk The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the ...

in 1940. She returned to the Fishguard to Rosslare service in 1946 and continued in service until 1967 when she was scrapped.

References

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