SS Invicta (1939)
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Invicta was a passenger ferry built in 1939 for the Southern Railway and requisitioned on completion by the Admiralty for use as a troopship, serving in the Second World War as HMS Invicta. She was returned to the Southern Railway in 1945 and passed to British Railways in 1948. With the introduction to TOPS (a new numbering system) in 1968, Invicta was one of 14 "locomotives" classified as Class 99. She was allocated TOPS Number 99 010.[1] Invicta served on the Dover – Calais route from 1946 until 1972 when she was withdrawn from service and scrapped.
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HMS Invicta underway on completion | |
History | |
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Name | Invicta |
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Port of registry | |
Route | Dover – Calais (1945–72) |
Ordered | 13 February 1939 |
Builder | William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton |
Yard number | 1344 |
Launched | 14 December 1939 |
Completed | June 1940 |
Commissioned | 3 June 1942 |
Decommissioned | 9 October 1945 |
Maiden voyage | 27 June 1940 |
In service | 1 July 1940 |
Out of service | 8 August 1972 |
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Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 336 ft 5 in (102.54 m) |
Beam | 50 ft 1 in (15.27 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
Depth | 24 ft 5 in (7.44 m) |
Installed power | 4 steam turbines |
Propulsion | Twin propellers |
Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
Capacity | 1,304 passengers |
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