TSS Duke of Lancaster (1956)

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
Career
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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