SS Bruges (1920) - Misplaced Pages

History

Name	TSS Bruges
Operator	1920–1923: Great Eastern Railway 1923–1940: London and North Eastern Railway
Port of registry
Route	Harwich to Antwerp
Builder	John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number	494
Launched	20 March 1920
Fate	Bombed and sunk 11 June 1940
General characteristics
Tonnage	2,949 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	321.6 feet (98.0 m)
Beam	43.1 feet (13.1 m)

TSS Bruges was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1920.

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 20 March 1920. She was launched by Lady Thornton

She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway.

She was requisitioned during the World War II as a troopship. She took part in Operation Cycle (the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre) and bombed and damaged on 11 June 1940 at Le Havre by Luftwaffe aircraft. She was beached to prevent her from sinking.

References

Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
"New Railway Steamer". Cambridge Daily News. England. 22 March 1920. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
"Bruges Ferry 1920-1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 June 2013.

v t e Ships operated by the Great Eastern Railway
Ships	Adelaide Amsterdam Antwerp Archangel Avalon Berlin Brandon Bruges Brussels Cambridge Chelmsford Claud Hamilton Colchester Copenhagen Cromer Dresden Essex Frinton Great Yarmouth Harwich Ipswich (1864) Ipswich (1883) Kilkenny Lady Tyler Malines Munich Norfolk Norwich Orwell Princess of Wales Richard Young Rotterdam Roulers St Denis St George Stockholm Stour (1864) Stour (1878) Suffolk St Petersburg Train Ferry No. 1 Train Ferry No. 2 Train Ferry No. 3 Vienna Yarmouth Zealous

Ships operated by the Great Eastern Railway

Ships

v t e Ships operated by the London and North Eastern Railway
Ex GCR ships	Accrington City of Bradford City of Leeds Dewsbury Lutterworth Macclesfield Nottingham Staveley
Ex GER ships	Amsterdam Antwerp Archangel Bruges Cromer Felixstowe Malines Roulers St Denis
Ships built for, or acquired by, the LNER	Amsterdam Arnhem Brightlingsea Prague Suffolk Ferry Train Ferry No. 1 (renamed Essex Ferry in 1946) Train Ferry No. 2 Train Ferry No. 3 Vienna
Humber Ferries	Grimsby Cleethorpes Brocklesby Killingholme Tattershall Castle Wingfield Castle Lincoln Castle

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1940
Shipwrecks	1 Jun: HMS Basilisk, Foudroyant, HMS Havant, Ioanna, HMS Keith, Scotia 7 Jun: HMS Carinthia 8 Jun: HMS Acasta, HMS Ardent, HMS Glorious, HMT Juniper 9 Jun: Max Wolf, Prins Olav 10 Jun: Olterra 11 Jun: Bruges 12 Jun: HMS Calypso, C 60 13 Jun: HNLMS O 13, HMS Odin, Train Ferry No. 2 15 Jun: HMS Andania 16 Jun: HMS Grampus, Rastrello 17 Jun: Champlain, HMS Lancastria, Ingénieur Riebell 18 Jun: Achille, Agosta, Clemenceau, Cyclone, Dordogne, Kergroise, Ouessant, Pasteur 19 Jun: Mexique, Niagara, HMS Orpheus 20 Jun: Empire Conveyor 21 Jun: Vliereede 23 Jun: HMS Khartoum 25 Jun: HMCS Fraser 27 Jun: Console Generale Liuzzi 29 Jun: Uebi Scebeli Unknown date: U-122
Other incidents	9 Jun: Empire Commerce 10 Jun: Barbana G, Monte Piana 25 Jun: HMS Calcutta Unknown date: Mari Chandris
1939 1940 1941 May 1940 July 1940

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