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SS Amsterdam (1930)

History
Name:
  • 1930:1941:TSS Amsterdam
  • 1941-1944:HMHS Amsterdam
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number: 529
Launched: 30 January 1930
Out of service: 7 August 1944
Identification: British Official Number 161037
Fate: Sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage: 4,220 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 350.8 feet (106.9 m)
Beam: 50.1 feet (15.3 m)
Depth: 26 feet (7.9 m)

TSS Amsterdam was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1930.

The ship was built by John Brown on Clydebank. She was one of an order for three ships, the others being Vienna and Prague. She was launched on 30 January 1930.

On 14 October 1932 she brought Prince George, Duke of Kent back from his tour of Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

In 1941 the Second World War the ship was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport and converted to a hospital ship. On 7 August 1944, she was sunk by a mine while taking casualties from Juno Beach, Calvados, France. A total of 55 patients, ten Royal Army Medical Corps staff, 30 crew and eleven prisoners of war were killed.


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