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SS ‘Immingham’ leaving Grimsby c1910.
The Albert Gait Collection
From the Gait family album. SS ‘Immingham’ was a passenger and cargo vessel built in 1906 by Swan Hunter of Wallsend for the Great Central Railway. She was built for the Grimsby-Rotterdam service. She was later rebuilt and had only one funnel. SS ‘Immingham’ was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1915 for use as a stores carrier and was renamed HMS ‘Immingham’. She sank in the Mediterranean Sea in June 1915 following a collision with HMS ‘Reindeer’.


