SS Immingham (1906)

TrSS "Immingham" was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.
History.
The ship was built by Swan Hunter of Wallsend and launched on 8 May 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being .
The Parsons steam turbines of "Immingham" and "Marylebone" were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each reduced in number from two to one.
She was requisitioned in 1915 by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use as a stores carrier and renamed HMS "Immingham". She sank on 6 June 1915 after a collision with the boom defence vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre has in its collection a painting by A.J. Jansen of "Immingham" as a single-screw steamer.