SS Trent
| History | |
|---|---|
| UK | |
| Name: | Trent |
| Owner: | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company |
| Builder: | R Napier |
| Launched: | 18 September 1899 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 5,525 GRT |
| Length: | 410 feet |
| Installed power: | steam engine |
SS Trent was a steamship built at Glasgow in 1899 and used as a mailship in the North Atlantic before being requisitioned as a depot ship by the British Admiralty in 1914. It rescued the crew of the airship America in their failed first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air in 1910.[1]
Passengers aboard SS Trent in 1902
References
- ↑ Unknown. "Thames Tugs". Thames Tugs. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
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