SS Cambridge (1886)

TSS Cambridge was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1886.^[1]

History
Name	1886–1919: TSS Cambridge 1919–1922: TSS Gul Nehad 1922–1937: TSS Gulnihal
Operator	1886–1912: Great Eastern Railway 1912–1919: Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company 1919–1922: Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople 1922–1937: ?
Port of registry
Route	1886–1912: Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched	11 October 1886
Out of service	1937
Fate	Scrapped 1937
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,194 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	280.5 feet (85.5 m)
Beam	31 feet (9.4 m)
Depth	15.2 feet (4.6 m)
Speed	14.5 knots

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 11 October 1886.^[2] She was launched by the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. W. B. Redfern), accompanied by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Deck).

She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.^[3]

She was sold in 1912 to the Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company. In 1919 she was acquired by the Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople and renamed Gul Nehad. She was sold again in 1922 and renamed Gulnihad. She was scrapped in 1937.