SS Normandy (1910)
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SS Normandy was a passenger vessel built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1910.{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}
History
She was built by Earle’s Shipbuilding in Hull and launched on 12 May 1910{{cite news |author= |title=There was yesterday launched…. |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19100513/140/0005 |newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |location=England |date=13 May 1910 |accessdate=1 December 2015 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} and christened Normandy by Mrs. Funnell.
She was sold by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to the London and South Western Railway in 1912.
The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk on 25 January 1918 in the English Channel {{convert|8|nmi|km}} east by north of the Cap de La Hague, Manche, France ({{coord|49|46|N|1|44|W}}) by {{SMU|U-90||6}} with the loss of fourteen lives.{{cite Uboat.net
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Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships of the London and South Western Railway
Category:Ships of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Category:Ships built on the Humber
Category:Maritime incidents in 1918