TSS Train Ferry No. 2 was a freight vessel built for the British Army War Office in 1917 by Armstrong, Whitworth and Company Ltd at Low Walker. With her sisters Train Ferry No. 1 and No. 3 she was among the first vessels to give regular transport between Britain and the Continent for rail freight vehicles, with four sets of rails on the train deck and a link span for loading, serving from Richborough harbour. In 1919 she helped rescue soldiers from the American transport USS Narragansett, ashore on the Isle of Wight. The Great Eastern Railway bought her in 1922 for the Harwich to Zeebrugge train ferry service. Requisitioned in 1940, she was hit by shore artillery during the evacuation from France and sank on 13 June 1940 off Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
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TSS Train Ferry No. 2 was a freight vessel built for the British Army War Office in 1917.
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she was hit by artillery from the shore and sank on 13 June 1940 off Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Seine Maritime
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