TSS ''Lorina'' was a passenger vessel built for the

London and South Western Railway The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth, to Salisbury, Exeter ...

in 1918.

History

She was built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 12 August 1918 and later converted into a troopship by Caledon Shipyards in Dundee. After an initial role as a troop ship, the railway company deployed her in March 1920 as a passenger ferry to and from the Channel Islands. In 1923, the TSS ''Lorina'' was acquired by the Southern Railway. On 27 August 1927 when leaving Guernsey, she collided with a motor fishing boat in

St Peter Port St. Peter Port (french: Saint-Pierre Port) is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2019 was 18,958. St. P ...

. The fishing boat sank within two minutes and one of the fishermen drowned. On 23 October 1935 she struck the Platte Rock near St Helier harbour but there were no casualties. Lorina was ordered to sail from Southampton to Dover in 1940 after the start of Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation. On 29 May 1940 she was dive-bombed by Luftwaffe aircraft while off Dunkirk and sank with the loss of eight crew. Two days later the wreck was boarded by men from the destroyer HMS ''Winchelsea'' who lowered undamaged lifeboats from the Lorina's davits and used them to ferry troops from the beaches.

References

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