TSS Duke of Lancaster (1956)
TSS Duke of Lancaster beached near Mostyn,
North Wales, 2010 |
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| Name: | TSS Duke of Lancaster |
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| Port of registry: |  Lancaster, United Kingdom |
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| Builder: | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number: | 1540 |
| Launched: | 1955 |
| Maiden voyage: | 1956 |
| In service: | 1956–79 |
| Out of service: | 1979 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 5094496 |
| Status: | Out of service; in permanent dock |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Turbine steam ship |
| Tonnage: | 4,450 GT |
| Length: | 114.63 m (376 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 17.46 m (57 ft 3 in) |
| Draught: | 4.54 m (14 ft 11 in) |
| Installed power: | 2 x Parmetrada steam turbines |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Capacity: | 1800 passengers |
Coordinates: 53°18′23.23″N 3°14′8.52″W / 53.3064528°N 3.2357000°W
The TSS Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is currently beached near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, north-east Wales. It replaced an earlier 3,600 ton ship of the same name operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway company between Heysham and Belfast.
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). She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, RMS Duke of Lancaster.
Built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast and completed in 1956, she was designed to operate as both a passenger ferry (primarily on the Heysham-Belfast route) and as a cruise ship. In this capacity, the Duke of Lancaster travelled to the Scottish islands and further afield to Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway and Spain.
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