SS ''Sarnia'' was a passenger vessel built for the
London and South Western Railway in 1910. During the
First World War, she served in the
Royal Navy as the
armed boarding steamer HMS ''Sarnia''.
History
''Sarnia'' was built by
Cammell Laird
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in
Birkenhead,
England, and launched on 9 July 1910.
[ Propulsion was by two double ended marine boilers providing steam for a set of Parsons turbines driving three shafts.][ Passenger accommodations were for 186 first and 114 second class passengers supported by 48 crew.][ ''Sarnia'' was one of a pair of ships ordered by the London and South Western Railway, the other being . They were the first turbine steamers ordered by the railway company. They were deployed on the route to the Channel Islands for a few years until the outbreak of the First World War.
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requisitioned her during the First World War for use by the Royal Navy and reconfigured her as the armed boarding steamer HMS ''Sarnia''. On 28 October 1915 she collided with the auxiliary minesweeper in the Dardanelles; ''Hythe'' sank with the loss of 154 lives.submarine
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sank ''Sarnia'' in the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria, Egypt, () on 12 September 1918 with the loss of 53 crew.
References
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1910 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships of the London and South Western Railway
Ships built on the River Mersey
Maritime incidents in 1915
Maritime incidents in 1918
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea