TSS ''Arnhem'' was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

in 1946.

History

The ship was built by John Brown on Clydebank and launched on 7 November 1946. She was the first in a series of ships to replace war losses, and was the first oil-fired ship ordered by the company. She had capacity for 600 passengers, and of grain. In March 1953 she rescued 29 men from the Swedish ship ''Rigel'' (3,823 tons) which sank after a collision with an Italian vessel ''Senegal'' (1,650 tons) some 60 miles from Ostend. Initially she was a single class vessel but was converted for first and second classes in 1954. She was taken over by the

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in 1948. She was scrapped in 1968 by Thos. W. Ward at Inverkeithing.

References

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