SS Colchester

TSS Colchester was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1888.^[1]

SS Colchester by A. J. Jansen
History
Name	1886–1919: TSS Colchester
Operator	1886–1916: Great Eastern Railway
Route	1886–1916: Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched	16 October 1888
Out of service	1919
Fate	Scrapped 1919
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,160 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	280.8 feet (85.6 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 16 October 1888.^[2] She was launched by the Mayoress of Colchester (Miss Paxman). She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.^[3]

Was operating to neutral Holland when captured by Germany on 21 September 1916.^[4] Captain Bennett and his crew of 29 were interned at Ruhleben.^[5] The Colchester was damaged in an attack on Zeebrugge on 17 February 1917.^[6]

She grounded at Kiel in 1918 and was scrapped in 1919.