TSS Lynx (1889)

History
Name:
  • 1889-1913: TSS Lynx
  • WW1 : HMS Lynn
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Laird Brothers, Birkenhead
Yard number: 571
Launched: 1889
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 880 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 235 ft (72 m)
Beam: 27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Depth: 14 ft (4.3 m)

TSS Lynx was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1889.[1]

History

She was built by Laird Brothers in Birkenhead as one of a trio of new ships for the Great Western Railway as a twin-screw steamer for the Channel Island Services. The other ships were TSS Gazelle and TSS Antelope.

Most of the passenger accommodation was removed in 1910 after which she was operated as a cargo vessel.

She served as minesweeper HMS Lynn in the Mediterranean during World War I and was finally broken up after 36 year’s service.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  2. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5135-4.
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