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TrSS ''St Petersburg'' was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1910. ==History== The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1910. She was launched by Miss Green, daughter of Frederick Green, director of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the First World War and renamed ''Archangel'' in 1916. She was used as a cross-channel troop ship. After the war she returned to railway ownership and in 1923 she fell under the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway. Requisitioned again in the Second World War she was bombed and damaged on 16 May 1941 in the North Sea north east of Aberdeen () by Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of 52 of the 475 people on board. The survivors were rescued by . On 17 May 1941 ''Archangel'' was beached south of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire and broke into four. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NAVAL EVENTS, May 1941, Part 2 of 2, Thursday 15th – Saturday 31st )〕 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 St Petersburg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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