SS Copenhagen (1907)
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TSS ''Copenhagen'' was a passenger vessel built for 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 ...
in 1907.


History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for 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 ...
as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907. She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route. On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea east of the ''Noord Hinder Lightship'' by with the loss of six lives.


References

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