TSS Duke of Clarence

Duke of Clarence
History
Name	Duke of Clarence
Owner	London and North Western Railway and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (joint owners 1892–1906) Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (1906–1922) London and North Western Railway (1922–1923) London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1923–1930)
Port of registry	Fleetwood (1892–1907) Goole (1907–1930)
Route	Belfast – Fleetwood Fleetwood – Derry Liverpool – Drogheda Hull – Zeebrugge
Builder	Laird Brothers, Birkenhead
Yard number	582
Launched	17 November 1891
Completed	1892
Out of service	1930
Identification	UK Official Number 89707 Code Letters MNSP ( -1930)
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,458 gross register tons (GRT), 531 NRT later 1,653 GRT, 687 NRT
Length	312 ft 5 in (95.22 m)
Beam	36 ft 2 in (11.02 m)
Depth	16 ft 7 in (5.05 m)
Installed power	Twin 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines
Propulsion	Twin screw propellers
Speed	19 knots (35 km/h)

TSS Duke of Clarence was a passenger vessel operated jointly by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) from 1892 between Fleetwood and northern Irish ports. In 1906 the LYR bought her outright and transferred her to their summer service from Hull to Zeebrugge, returning to the Irish Sea in winter. During the First World War Duke of Clarence served as an armed boarding steamer. She resumed passenger service in 1920, passing through changes of ownership in the reorganisations of Britain's railway companies in the 1920s, until she was scrapped in 1930.