TrSS ''St Patrick'' was a passenger vessel built for the
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
in 1906.
History
She was built by
John Brown and Company for the
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
as one of a trio of new ships which included
TrSS ''St George'' and
TrSS ''St David''.
From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War.
On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship
TrSS ''St David'' in Fishguard harbour.
She was re-engined in 1926 and caught fire on 7 April 1929.
The fire was attributed to an electrical fault following which she was scrapped.
References
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1906 ships
Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Clyde
Ships of the Great Western Railway