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History |
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Name: |
- 1930:1941:TSS Amsterdam
- 1941-1944:HMHS Amsterdam
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Operator: |
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Port of registry: |
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Builder: |
John Brown, Clydebank |
Yard number: |
529 |
Launched: |
30 January 1930 |
Out of service: |
7 August 1944 |
Identification: |
British Official Number 161037 |
Fate: |
Sunk |
General characteristics |
Tonnage: |
4,220 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length: |
350.8 feet (106.9 m) |
Beam: |
50.1 feet (15.3 m) |
Depth: |
26 feet (7.9 m) |
TSS Amsterdam was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1930.[1]
History
The ship was built by John Brown on Clydebank. She was one of an order for three ships, the others being Vienna and Prague. She was launched on 30 January 1930.
On 14 October 1932 she brought Prince George, Duke of Kent back from his tour of Denmark, Sweden and Holland.[2]
In 1941 the Second World War the ship was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport and converted to a hospital ship. On 7 August 1944, she was sunk by a mine while taking casualties from Juno Beach, Calvados, France. A total of 55 patients, ten Royal Army Medical Corps staff, 30 crew and eleven prisoners of war were killed.[3][4]
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Shipwrecks |
- 2 Aug: USS Fiske
- 3 Aug: HMS Quorn
- 4 Aug: Tannenfels, Matsu
- 5 Aug: Mefküre, U-671
- 6 Aug: Empire City, U-471, U-736, U-952, U-969, Sachsenwald
- 7 Aug: Amsterdam, Empire Day, Nagara
- 8 Aug: Conte Verde, HMCS Regina
- 9 Aug: Spichern
- 10 Aug: U-608
- 11 Aug: U-385, U-967
- 12 Aug: T-114, T-118, U-198, U-981
- 13 Aug: USS Flier, Preußen, U-270
- 14 Aug: Gueydon, U-618
- 15 Aug: U-741
- 16 Aug: Trémintin
- 18 Aug: La Galissonnière, Natori, Strasbourg, Taiyō, Teia Maru, U-107, U-129, U-621
- 19 Aug: Hayasui, Tamatsu Maru, U-123, U-466
- 20 Aug: Richard Montgomery, U-9, U-413, U-984, U-1229
- 21 Aug: HMCS Alberni, HMS Kite, HMS Orchis, U-230, Z23
- 22 Aug: HMS Bickerton, HMS Loyalty, Matsuwa, Tsushima Maru, U-344
- 23 Aug: Asakaze, U-180
- 24 Aug: USS Harder, U-354, U-445, Z37
- 25 Aug: U-18, U-24, U-178, U-667, UIT-21, Yūnagi, Z24
- 26 Aug: Samidare, U-188
- 27 Aug: HMS Britomart, Clemenceau, HMS Hussar
- 28 Aug: John Barry
- 30 Aug: De Grasse, M553
- 31 Aug: Shirataka
- Unknown date:Condorcet, Marechal Petain, U-925
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