TSS St David (1947)

History
Name	1947-1971: TSS St David; 1971-????: TSS Holyhead;
Operator	1947-1948:Great Western Railway; 1948-1971:British Railways;
Port of registry
Route	1947-1969: Fishguard - Rosslare; 1969-1971: Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire;
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number	1185
Launched	6 February 1947
Fate	Scrapped 1979
General characteristics
Tonnage	3,352 gross register tons (GRT)

TSS St David was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1947.^[1]

History[edit]

TSS St David was built by Cammell Laird in 1947 as one of a pair of vessels with TSS St Patrick. St David was launched on 6 February 1947 by the Countess of Dudley, wife of the deputy chairman of the Great Western Railway.^[2] She entered service at Fishguard in July 1947.

In 1969 she was transferred to the Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire service. In 1971 she was sold to Greek owner Handris Lines and was renamed Holyhead. She never entered service under Handris ownership and was scrapped in 1979.

References[edit]

^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
^ "New G.W.R. Cross-Channel Vessels". Western Gazette. England. 7 February 1947. Retrieved 15 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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

[2] "New G.W.R. Cross-Channel Vessels". Western Gazette. England. 7 February 1947. Retrieved 15 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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