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The Duke of Lancaster off Mull, Scotland. Along with her sister ships the TSS Duke of Rothesay 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). [2] She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer, Duke of Lancaster, built by the London Midland and Scottish ...
The ship is known as "The Queen's Frigate", [16] the Duke of Lancaster being a subsidiary title of the Sovereign. Being the third ship in the Type 23 class, Lancaster was originally allocated the pennant number F232 until it was noted that the 232 is the Royal Navy report form for groundings and collisions and therefore considered unlucky.
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'.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, RMS Duke of Argyll. Built at Harland & Wolff , Belfast , launched on 12 January 1956 and making its maiden voyage on 27 September 1956, the vessel was designed to operate as both a passenger ferry (primarily on the Heysham to Belfast route) and as a ...
TSS Duke of Argyll was a passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1909 to 1923. [ 1 ] and also as Alsacien by Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace from 1927 to 1936.