TSS Waterford (1912)

History
Name:
  • 1912-1924: TSS Waterford
  • 1924-1941: TSS Panay
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Route: Fishguard - Waterford
Builder: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited, Neptune Yard
Yard number: 880
Launched: 20 February 1912
Completed: April 1912
Out of service: 30 December 1941
Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft at Campomanes Bay,Negros
General characteristics
Type: Ferry
Tonnage: 1,204 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 275.2 ft (83.9 m)
Beam: 38.2 ft (11.6 m)
Draught: 16.5 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion: Quadruple expansion engines

TSS Waterford was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1912.[1]

History

She was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited in Neptune Yard, Low Walker on the River Tyne for the Great Western Railway. She was launched on 20 February 1912, and later that year started work on the Fishguard to Waterford service.

In 1924 she was sold to Fernandex Hermanos, Cia Maritime, Manila and renamed Panay.[2] She was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Campomanes Bay, Negros Island, on 30 December 1941.

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  2. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5135-4.
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