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

History

The ship was built by

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and launched in 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being . She undertook her trials in December 1906 and was reported of achieving a speed of 17.25 knots for 24 hours, and over 6 hours, a speed of 18.4 knots. She was built with accommodation for 60 first-class passengers in two-berth cabins, and 400 third-class passengers. She arrived in

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on 6 January 1907 for her first voyage. The Parsons steam turbines of ''Marylebone'' and ''Immingham'' were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each being reduced from two to one. In 1923 she passed to the

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and was sold in 1932 to the Tramp Shipping Development Company. She was renamed ''Velos'', ''Arafat'', and ''Velos'' again. She was scrapped in Italy in 1938.

Depictions

Two notable paintings exist of the ''Marylebone'', one by George Race as a triple-screw steamer, circa 1906, in the collection of the

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, and one by A.J. Jansen of the vessel in 1913, in the

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Art Collection. The 1913 painting depicts the ''Marylebone'' after conversion to a single-screw steamer.

References

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Painting of the ''Marylebone'', attributed to ''George Race''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marylebone 1906 ships Steamships of the United Kingdom Ships built on the River Mersey Ships of the Great Central Railway Ships of the London and North Eastern Railway