SS ''Chesterfield'' was a cargo vessel built for the

Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the ...

in 1913.

History

The ship was built by

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and launched in 1913. She was the first of an order of two ships from Swan Hunter, the other being . She was deployed on the Grimsby to Rotterdam service. She was requisitioned by the British Admiralty in October 1914 for use as a fleet messenger and renamed HMS ''Chesterfield''. On 18 May 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk in the

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at , northeast by east of

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, by the

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submarine with the loss of four of her crew.

References

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