TSS ''Vienna'' was a passenger vessel built for the
Great Eastern Railway in 1894.
History
The ship was built by
Earle's Shipbuilding
Earle's Shipbuilding was an engineering company that was based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1845 to 1932.
Earle Brothers
The company was started in Hull in 1845 by two brothers, Charles and William Earle. The firm was made u ...
, Hull for the
Great Eastern Railway and launched on 18 July 1894. She was launched by Lady Seager Hunt, wife of
Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, 1st Baronet, Chairman of
Earle's Shipbuilding
Earle's Shipbuilding was an engineering company that was based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1845 to 1932.
Earle Brothers
The company was started in Hull in 1845 by two brothers, Charles and William Earle. The firm was made u ...
company.
She was the third vessel launched that year from Earl’s Shipbuilding for the
Great Eastern Railway after the on 10 January 1894, and on 24 January 1894.
Initially placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route under a foreign flag, she was awarded the Royal Mail contract in 1898 and was then registered under a British flag.
She was transferred to the Antwerp service in 1910.
In 1920 she was renamed ''Roulers'' when she transferred to the Harwich to Zeebrugge service. In 1923 she fell under the ownership of the
London and North Eastern Railway.
She was scrapped in 1930.
See also
Similar Ships
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SS Berlin (1894)
SS ''Berlin'' was a steel ship, which was owned by the Great Eastern Railway and built for use on their ferry service from Harwich and the Hook of Holland, which the company had initiated in 1893.
The Great Eastern Railway ordered three stea ...
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SS Amsterdam (1894)
References
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1894 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the Humber
Ships of the Great Eastern Railway
Ships of the London and North Eastern Railway