HMHS St Denis, by Alfred Jensen
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History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | 1908: Munich |
Owner |
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Operator |
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Port of registry | 1908: Harwich |
Route | Harwich – Antwerp |
Builder | John Brown & Co, Clydebank |
Yard number | 384 |
Launched | 26 August 1908 |
Completed | 1908 |
Identification |
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Notes | scrapped 1950 |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger ferry |
Tonnage | 2,410 GRT, 1,029 NRT |
Length | 331.0 ft (100.9 m) |
Beam | 43.2 ft (13.2 m) |
Depth | 17.8 ft (5.4 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 1,325 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Sensors and processing systems | by 1910: submarine signalling |
Notes | sister ships: Copenhagen, St Petersburg |
SS Munich was a North Sea passenger ferry that was built in Scotland in 1908 for the Great Eastern Railway (GER). In the 1923 railway grouping she passed to the new London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). She was scrapped in England in 1950.
In 1914 she was requisitioned as a hospital ship and renamed St. Denis. Early in the Second World War St Denis was requisitioned as a troop ship. In 1940 the Kriegsmarine captured her and renamed her Skorpion, and then Barbara. She returned to Allied control in 1945.