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In order to maintain ferry services whilst these modifications took place, Duke of Lancaster's duties as a cruise ship ceased. [5] [6] On 25 April 1970 the ship returned to service, having had her main deck rebuilt to accommodate vehicles via a rear door at her stern. The ship now provided space for 1,200 single-class passengers and 105 cars ...
In 1941 Duke of Lancaster as requisitioned as HM Hospital Ship No.56, with capacity for 408 patients and 60 medical staff, as well as 100 crew. In June 1944 she accompanied the troopships to the Normandy landings. [2] The ship was refitted after the war and fitted with, and used for testing, Marconi's first civil marine radar, the 'Radiolocator 1'.
Duke of Lancaster was launched on 9 May 1895 at the Barrow-in-Furness yard of the Naval Construction & Armaments Co, who also constructed the engines and boilers. [2] [3]The vessel initially had a tonnage of 1,520 grt and 467 nrt; length 310 ft 2 in, 94.54 m; beam 37 ft 1 in, 11.30 m; depth 16 ft 4 in, 4.98 m. [4]
A number of ships were named Duke of Lancaster, including: Duke of Lancaster and Royal Saxon off Cape Town, Samuel Waters (artist), c. 1832. Duke of Lancaster, of 556 tons , was launched at Liverpool for Gladstone & Co. She traded with India under a licence from the British East India Company. She was last listed in 1844. SS Duke of Lancaster ...
She was commissioned with two other ships, the RMS Duke of Argyll (1928) and the RMS Duke of Lancaster (1927). Built at William Denny and Brothers , Dumbarton and completed in 1928, she was designed to operate as a passenger ferry on the Heysham to Belfast route.
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Duke of Rothesay at Fishguard in August 1969. Along with her sister ships the TSS Duke of Lancaster and the TSS Duke of Argyll she was amongst the last passenger-only steamers built for British Railways (at that time, also a ferry operator). [1] She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway, RMS Duke ...