SS Felixstowe (1918)

History
Name	1918-1950:SS Felixstowe; 1950-1957:SS Kylemore;
Operator	1918-1923:Great Eastern Railway; 1923-1948:London and North Eastern Railway; 1948-1950:British Railways; 1950-1957:Limerick Steamship Company;
Port of registry
Builder	Hawthorne and Company, Leith
Launched	May 1918
Fate	Scrapped 1957
General characteristics
Tonnage	892 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	215.1 feet (65.6 m)
Beam	33.2 feet (10.1 m)
Depth	16 feet (4.9 m)

SS Felixstowe was a cargo vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1918.^[1]

History edit

The ship was built by Hawthorn and Company of Leith and launched in 1918. She was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

In 1942 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a wreck dispersal vessel at Deptford. She increased in tonnage from 892 to 1,200. She was renamed HMS Colchester and put on duty at Sheerness.

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948. In 1950 she was sold to the Limerick Steamship Company and renamed Kylemore.^[2]

She was broken up in Rotterdam in 1957.^[3]

References edit

^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
^ The Nautical Magazine. Vol. 165–166. 1951. p. 139.
^ Sea Breezes. Vol. 25. 1958. p. 140.

[1] Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.

[2] The Nautical Magazine. Vol. 165–166. 1951. p. 139.

[3] Sea Breezes. Vol. 25. 1958. p. 140.

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History

Name	1918-1950:SS Felixstowe 1950-1957:SS Kylemore
Operator	1918-1923:Great Eastern Railway 1923-1948:London and North Eastern Railway 1948-1950:British Railways 1950-1957:Limerick Steamship Company
Port of registry
Builder	Hawthorne and Company, Leith
Launched	May 1918
Fate	Scrapped 1957
General characteristics
Tonnage	892 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	215.1 feet (65.6 m)
Beam	33.2 feet (10.1 m)
Depth	16 feet (4.9 m)