TSS Duke Of Lancaster (1956)
Coordinates: 53°18′23.23″N 3°14′8.52″W / 53.3064528°N 3.2357000°W / 53.3064528; -3.2357000
Duke of Lancaster landlocked near Mostyn, North Wales, 2010 |
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Career | |
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Name: | TSS Duke of Lancaster |
Owner: | 1955–1963: British Transport Commission 1963–1979: Sealink 1979–present: Empirewise |
Operator: | 1955–1963: British Transport Commission 1963–1979: Sealink |
Port of registry: | Lancaster, United Kingdom |
Route: | 1955–1975: Heysham - Belfast 1975–1979: Holyhead - Dún Laoghaire |
Builder: | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number: | 1540 |
Launched: | 1955 |
Maiden voyage: | 1956 |
In service: | 1956-1979 |
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 (gross tonnage) |
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 |
The 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.
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