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TSS ''Vienna'' was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1929. ==History== The ship was built by John Brown on Clydebank to replace a ship of the same name of 1894. She was one of an order for three ships, the others being and . She was launched on 10 April 1929 by Lady Barrie, wife of Sir Charles Barrie of Airlie Park, Broughty Ferry. Lady Barrie was given a diamond and emerald brooch by the builders as a momento of the occasion. In 1932 she went to the aid of the which had been holed in a collision in the River Scheldt. On reaching the sinking vessel she took on board 131 passengers and their baggage and transferred them to Antwerp. In 1941 the ship was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport and served time in the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers and Bari. In 1945 she returned to become a permanent leave ship for the British Army of the Rhine between Harwich and Hook of Holland. She was withdrawn in 1960 and scrapped in Ghent. 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 Vienna (1929)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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