SS Malines
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| Ship registry = | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Armstrong, Whitworth and Company | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = 972 | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 6 January 1921 | Ship completed = | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = 21 March 1922 | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = April 1948 | Ship identification = | Ship fate = Scrapped | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship type = | Ship tonnage = {{GRT|2969|disp=long}} | Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{convert|320.7|ft|m}} | Ship beam = {{convert|43.2|ft|m}} | Ship draught = | Ship depth = {{convert|25.7|ft|m}} | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship power = 1525 nhp | Ship propulsion = 4 Brown-Curtis steam turbines | Ship speed = 21 knots | Ship capacity = 360 passengers | Ship crew = | Ship notes = }} |
TSS Malines was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1921.{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=English |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}
History
The ship was built by Armstrong Whitworth and Company in High Walker and launched on 6 January 1921{{cite news |author= |title=New Railway Steamer |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000393/19210115/057/0005 |newspaper=Gloucester Chronicle |location=England |date=15 January 1921 |access-date=4 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} by Mrs. John Kenneth Foster. She was a sister ship for the {{RMS|Antwerp|1919|2}} and {{SS|Bruges|1920|2}} which were introduced on the Harwich to Antwerp service in 1920. She made her maiden voyage to Antwerp on 21 March 1922.{{cite news |author= |title=Coaled by a special process… |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000484/19220325/081/0007 |newspaper=Tamworth Herald |location=England |date=25 March 1922 |access-date=4 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} The Great Eastern Railway was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway company in 1923.
In 1932 she was in collision with the tanker Hanseat, and was run on to a sandbank in the River Scheldt. She was refloated by six tugs and towed up the river to be docked in Antwerp.{{cite news |author= |title=Off sandbank |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19320711/076/0007 |newspaper=Western Morning News |location=England |date=11 July 1932|access-date=4 November 2015 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} On 7 May 1933 she was in collision in the fairway off Flushing with the Swedish steamer Jamaica (945 tons), and the collision resulted in the sinking of the Jamaica.{{cite news |author= |title=British Ship in Collision |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19330508/116/0007 |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Scotland |date=8 May 1933 |access-date=4 November 2015 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} In 1936 she was in collision with the Dutch vessel Almkirk (6,810 tons), but there were no casualties.{{cite news |author= |title=The L.N.E.R. steamer Malines… |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19360320/097/0003 |newspaper=Gloucestershire Echo |location=England |date=20 March 1936 |access-date=4 November 2015 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
In 1940 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Malines. She was used as an auxiliary Convoy Escort Vessel. On 19 July 1942 she was torpedoed by German aircraft and beached near Port Said, Egypt. She was refloated in January 1943 and used as a training hulk through the end of the War.{{cite web |url= http://www.lner.info/ships/GER/malines.shtml |title=Malines |publisher=Iner.info |accessdate=19 July 2013}} In June 1945 she was towed by Empire tug Susan from Port Said to Falmouth, but the journey was delayed when the hold filled with water between Gibraltar and Lisbon.{{cite news |author= |title=Wrecks, casualties etc. |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19450614/062/0006 |newspaper=Western Morning News |location=England |date=14 June 1945 |access-date=4 November 2015 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} She eventually returned to the Tyne on 8 November 1945.
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Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships built on the River Tyne
Category:Ships of the Great Eastern Railway