SS Cromer (1902)

TSS Cromer was a cargo vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1902.^{[1][page needed]}

History
Name	TSS Cromer
Namesake	Cromer
Operator	1902–1923: Great Eastern Railway 1923–1934: London and North Eastern Railway
Port of registry
Builder	Gourlay Brothers, Dundee
Yard number	201
Launched	22 February 1902
Out of service	1934
Fate	Scrapped 1934
General characteristics
Tonnage	812 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	245.3 feet (74.8 m)
Beam	31.1 feet (9.5 m)
Depth	15.3 feet (4.7 m)
Speed	13.5 knots

History

The ship was built by Gourlay Brothers of Dundee and launched on 22 February 1902 by Miss A Howard. She made her trial trip on 17 March 1902.^{[2][page needed]} She was put to work on the Harwich to Rotterdam route. She could carry 450 tons of cargo and 86 head of cattle.

On 9 July 1909 she was in collision with the Cardiff steamer Southfield, in the waterway from Rotterdam. She sustained only slight damage, whereas the forepart of the Southfield was damaged badly and she started to leak. After returning to her anchorage, the Cromer was able to depart for Harwich later the same evening.^{[3][page needed]}

In 1915 she was attacked 15 miles off the Noord Hinder Lightship but the torpedo missed the ship.^{[4][page needed]}

In 1916 she picked up from a lifeboat 23 men from the crew of the British steamer Empress of Midland which had been sunk.^{[5][page needed]} Later that same year Captain Beeching was presented with a gold watch, and the crew with silver watches to commemorate the sinking by the Cromer of a German submarine in the North Sea some two months previously.^{[6][page needed]}

She was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

She was scrapped in 1934.

SS Cromer, by A. J. Jansen