TSS Sir Francis Drake was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908.[1]
 Men unloading mail from the Sir Francis Drake at Millbay Docks, Plymouth in 1926
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| History | |
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| Name | 1908-1954: TSS Sir Francis Drake |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Yard number | 682 |
| Launched | 18 February 1908 |
| Fate | Scrapped in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth 1954 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 478 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 151.5 feet (46.2 m) |
| Beam | 38.5 feet (11.7 m) |
| Draught | 9 feet (2.7 m) |
| Depth | 14.6 feet (4.5 m) |
History edit
TSS Sir Francis Drake was built by Cammell Laird as one of a pair of vessels, with TSS Sir Walter Raleigh. She operated as a tender in Plymouth for 46 years and also sometimes at Fishguard.
She was hired to the Admiralty as a tug from 1914 to 1919. In August 1939 she was again hired to the Admiralty for use at Plymouth and later at Scapa Flow, returning to the GWR at Plymouth in 1946. She was broken up in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, in 1954.[2]
References edit
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ Kittridge, Alan (1993). Plymouth – Ocean Liner Port of Call. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-30-4.