TSS Duke of Argyll (1909)

History

Name:	1909-1927: TSS Duke of Argyll 1927-1936: TSS Alsacien
Owner:	1909-1923: London and North Western Railway 1923-1927: London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1927-1936: Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace
Operator:	1909-1923: London and North Western Railway 1923-1927: London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1927-1936: Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace
Port of registry:
Route:	1909-1927: Belfast – Fleetwood 1927-1936: Tilbury - Dunkirk
Builder:	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Yard number:	874
Launched:	6 May 1909
Out of service:	1937
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,052 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	331 ft (101 m)
Beam:	41 ft (12 m)
Speed:	21 knots

TSS Duke of Argyll was a passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1909 to 1923.^[1] and also as Alsacien by Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace from 1927 to 1936.

History

She was built at William Denny and Brothers, as part of a fleet of seven ships delivered by the company between 1892 and 1909.

Ships operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

LYR operated ships	Aire Alt Berlin Calder Colne Cuxhaven Dearne Derwent Don Douglas Equity Hebble Hodder Humber Irwell Liberty Mersey Nidd Ouse Ouse Ralph Creyke Rawcliffe Rosa Rother River Crake River Ribble Rye Spen Unity Wenning West Riding Wharfe

Jointly operated with the London and North Western Railway	Colleen Bawn Duke of Albany Duke of Argyll Duke of Clarence Duke of Connaught (I) Duke of Connaught (II) Duke of Cornwall Duke of Cumberland Duke of Lancaster Duke of York Earl of Ulster Ivernagh Kathleen Mavourneen Lune Mellifont Norah Creina Prince Arthur Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Royal Consort Thomas Dugdale Tredagh

Ships operated by the London and North Western Railway

LNWR operated ships	Admiral Moorsom Alexandra Anglesey Anglia (I) Anglia (II) Anglia (III) Arvonia Banshee Cambria (I) Cambria (II) Cambria (III) Cambria (IV) Cloghmore Connemara Countess of Erne Curraghmore Dodder Duchess of Sutherland Duke of Sutherland Earl Spencer Edith Eleanor (I) Eleanor (II) Galtee More Greenore (I) Greenore (II) Hercules Hibernia (I) Hibernia (II) Hibernia (III) Holyhead Irene Isabella Lily Menevia Mersey North Wall Ocean Olga Queen Rathmore Rose Rosstrevor Sea Nymph Severn Scotia (I) Scotia (II) Scotia (III) Shamrock Slieve Bawn Slieve Bloom Slieve Donard Slieve Gallion Slievemore Snowdon South Stack Stanley Telegraph Violet

Jointly operated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway	Colleen Bawn Duke of Albany Duke of Argyll Duke of Clarence Duke of Connaught (I) Duke of Connaught (II) Duke of Cornwall Duke of Cumberland Duke of Lancaster Duke of York Earl of Ulster Ivernagh Kathleen Mavourneen Lune Mellifont Norah Creina Prince Arthur Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Royal Consort Thomas Dugdale Tredagh

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