TrSS ''St David'' was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1906.

History

She was built by

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for the Great Western Railway as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS ''St George'' and TrSS ''St Patrick''. From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War. She was re-engined in 1925. On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship TrSS ''St Patrick'' in

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harbour. In 1932 she was renamed ''Rosslare'', to allow for a successor vessel to be named ''St Patrick''. She was scrapped in September 1933.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:St David 1906 ships Passenger ships of the United Kingdom Steamships of the United Kingdom Ships built on the River Clyde Ships of the Great Western Railway