TrSS ''St George'' 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 1906.

History

She 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, ...

for the

as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS ''St Patrick'' and TrSS ''St David''. She was launched on 13 January 1906 by Mrs David MacIver, and later that year started work on the new Fishguard to Waterford service. In May 1913 she was sold to the

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...

. In 1917 she was requisitioned by the Canadian Government and acted as a hospital ship. In 1919 the

sold her to the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

where she operated services to and from Harwich. She was scrapped in October 1929 by Hughes-Bolckow Shipbreaking Company in Blyth.

References

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