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SS Cromer (1902)

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which had been sunk. Later that same year Captain Beeching was presented with a gold watch, and the crew with silver watches to commemorate the sinking by the
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and launched on 22 February 1902 by Miss A Howard. She made her trial trip on 17 March 1902. She was put to work on the
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In 1916 she picked up from a lifeboat 23 men from the crew of the British steamer
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was damaged badly and she started to leak. After returning to her anchorage, the
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Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968).
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route. She could carry 450 tons of cargo and 86 head of cattle.
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was able to depart for Harwich later the same evening.
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Steamer's escape" 366:British Newspaper Archive 334:British Newspaper Archive 133: 32: 23: 421:Birmingham Daily Gazette 154:245.3 feet (74.8 m) 97:Gourlay Brothers, Dundee 356:. England. 10 July 1909 134:General characteristics 886:Ships operated by the 508:Ships operated by the 387:Edinburgh Evening News 281: 202:The ship was built by 170:15.3 feet (4.7 m) 162:31.1 feet (9.5 m) 1209:Ships built in Dundee 1046:acquired by, the LNER 510:Great Eastern Railway 275: 192:Great Eastern Railway 66:Great Eastern Railway 315:"The steamer Cromer" 1044:Ships built for, or 144:gross register tons 1163:Tattershall Castle 282: 249:Empress of Midland 1186: 1185: 1108:Train Ferry No. 3 1101:Train Ferry No. 2 1089:Train Ferry No. 1 853: 852: 823:Train Ferry No. 3 816:Train Ferry No. 2 809:Train Ferry No. 1 730:Princess of Wales 280:, by A. J. 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Cromer
Great Eastern Railway
London and North Eastern Railway
United Kingdom
gross register tons
Great Eastern Railway
Gourlay Brothers
Dundee
Harwich
Rotterdam
Cardiff
Noord Hinder
German submarine
London and North Eastern Railway

"The steamer Cromer"
Dundee Courier
British Newspaper Archive
"British Steamer In Collision off the Hook of Holland"
British Newspaper Archive
"G.E.R. Steamer's escape"
Edinburgh Evening News
British Newspaper Archive
"Enemy Sink another vessel"
Birmingham Daily Gazette
British Newspaper Archive
"Sank a U Boat"
Essex Newsman
British Newspaper Archive

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