SS Prague (1929)

Photo from 28 May 1930
History
NameTSS Prague
OperatorLondon and North Eastern Railway
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderJohn Brown, Clydebank
Yard number528
Launched18 November 1929
Out of service1948
FateScrapped 1948
General characteristics
Tonnage4,220 gross register tons (GRT)
Length350 feet (110 m)
Beam50 feet (15 m)

TSS Prague was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1929.[1] The first group of Kindertransport refugees to arrive in the UK did so aboard the Prague, in December 1938.

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.