TrSS ''Immingham'' was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter of Wallsend and launched on 8 May 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being . The Parsons steam turbines of ''Immingham'' and ''Marylebone'' were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each reduced in number from two to one. She was requisitioned in 1915 by the

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for Royal Navy use as a stores carrier and renamed HMS ''Immingham''. She sank on 6 June 1915 after a collision with the

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in the Mediterranean Sea. The

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has in its collection a painting by A.J. Jansen of ''Immingham'' as a single-screw steamer.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Immingham (1906) 1906 ships Steamships of the United Kingdom Ships built on the River Tyne Ships of the Great Central Railway World War I auxiliary ships of the United Kingdom Maritime incidents in 1915 Ships sunk in collisions World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea