Copenhagen under way
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Copenhagen |
Namesake | Copenhagen |
Owner | Great Eastern Railway |
Operator | 1916: Admiralty |
Port of registry | 1908: Harwich |
Route | Harwich – Hook of Holland |
Builder | John Brown & Co, Clydebank |
Yard number | 380 |
Launched | 22 October 1907 |
Completed | December 1907 |
Identification |
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Fate | sunk by torpedo, 1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger ferry |
Tonnage | 2,570 GRT, 1,092 NRT |
Length | 331.2 ft (100.9 m) |
Beam | 43.2 ft (13.2 m) |
Depth | 17.8 ft (5.4 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 1,200 shp |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
Capacity | passengers: 320 × 1st class; 130 × 2nd class |
Sensors and processing systems | submarine signalling |
Notes | sister ships: Munich, St Petersburg |
SS Copenhagen was a North Sea passenger ferry that was built in Scotland in 1907. She was the Great Eastern Railway (GER)'s first turbine steamship. In 1916 she was requisitioned as an ambulance ship. A U-boat sank her in 1917 with the loss of six lives.