SS Norwich
{{short description|British steamship}}
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TSS Norwich was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1883.{{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 Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 6 March 1883.{{cite news |author= |title=Launch of Railway Steamers at Hull |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000065/18830309/022/0005 |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=England |date=9 March 1883 |access-date=2 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}} She was one of a pair of new steamers ordered by the Great Eastern Railway, the other being {{SS|Ipswich|1883|2}}. She was launched by the Mayoress of Norwich.
She was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp route.{{cite book |last=Haws |first=Duncan |year=1993 |title=Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena |location=Hereford |publisher=TCL Publications |isbn=0-946378-22-3 }}
She was withdrawn from service in 1905 and sold in 1906 to the Channel Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. After a succession of subsequent ownership in Cape Verde, Montevideo, New York and Mexico, she sank in 1921 when under the ownership of the Mexican Fruit and Steamship Company.
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Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom