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SS ''Irwell'' was a freight vessel built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1906. ==History== She was built in 1906 by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson as a sister ship to SS Mersey, and launched on 10 May 1906 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to provide freight services from Goole to Rotterdam. She made her maiden voyage from the River Tyne to Goole on 13 June 1906 In June 1907, two stowaways were discovered when she had departed Hamburg. Clowes Enoch of Schleswig Holstein, and Joseph Todhunter of Birkenhead were found among the sails in the after part between decks In December 1913 she was returning to Goole from Ghent when she reversed forcefully into the north wall of the dock. A small boat was smashed and some pieces of the wall were dislodged. In 1914 she was engaged in the potato trade from Jersey, bringing the produce direct into Hull. On 15 May 1929 she left Goole for Copenhagen, but became stuck in ice off the Danish Coast north of Sjaelland with a broken rudder and the steward was reported as dead. The mate of the ship also died, he fell overboard, striking his head against one of the anchor chains, was killed. She transferred to the London and North Western Railway in 1922, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and Associated Humber Lines in 1935.She was based in Icelandic waters as a Naval supply ship in World War II. In 1946 she switched to Larne to Loch Ryan service. On 28 December 1947 she was on a voyage from Rotterdam in heavy seas she the second officer reported seeing a yacht tossing helplessly flying distress signals. The America vessel, the ''Seafarer'' had set out from Cowes to sail to Norway. During the crossing, their engine failed, and the sail was blown away by the westerly gale. They had drifted for two days before being spotted by the ''Irwell''. The crew of the ''Irwell'' managed to get a line aboard and they towed the yacht to Masslius. In 1948 she transferred to the British Transport Commission and she was scrapped in March 1954 at Gateshead. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Irwell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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