City of Leeds

Ownership

1903 Great Central Railway Company
(1914 - 1919 Imperial German Navy requisition)
1923 LNER

Capacity

50 1^st class plus 250-440 emigrant class. Reduced to 12 passengers in the 1920's.

Routes

Grimsby to Hamburg, later other routes

Shipbuilder

Earle's Ship Building & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull (yard no. 482)

Launched 08/06/1903  Completed 07/1903

Dimensions

GRT: 1341grt

Length: 256.5ft.

Beam: 34.5ft.

Engine builder

Earle's Ship Building & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion, 24.5", 38", 64" x 42", 356NHP. 14 knots.

Notes

Intercepted by German patrols off the Elbe in August 1914 and taken to Hamburg, requisitioned into the Imperial German Navy and served as a minelayer depot ship. Returned to the GCR in 1919 and refitted. Broken up at Blyth where she arrived on 30 April 1937.