SS Don

History




United Kingdom
Name	1892–1915: SS Don
Operator	1892–1905: Goole Steam Shipping Company Limited 1905–1915: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Builder	William Dobson and Company, Walker Yard
Yard number	54
Launched	11 July 1892
Out of service	8 May 1915
Fate	Sunk 8 May 1915


General characteristics
Tonnage	939 GRT
Length	225.5 ft (68.7 m)
Beam	33.3 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	15.7 ft (4.8 m)

SS Don was a British freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company Limited in 1892.^[1]

History

Don was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard for the Goole Steam Shipping Company Limited^[2] and launched on 11 July 1892. She was obtained by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1905.

During World War I, Don was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) east of Coquet Island by the Imperial German Navy submarine U-9 on 8 May 1915. Her crew survived.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
^ "1098389". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
^ "Don". Uboat.net. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
^ "BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA Part 1 of 2 - Abadol (oiler) to Lynx (destroyer)". Naval History. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

v t e Ships operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
LYR operated ships	Aire Alt Berlin Calder Colne Cuxhaven Dearne Derwent Don Douglas Equity Hebble Hodder Humber Irwell Liberty Mersey Nidd Ouse Ouse Ralph Creyke Rawcliffe Rosa Rother River Crake River Ribble Rye Spen Unity Wenning West Riding Wharfe
Jointly operated with the London and North Western Railway	Colleen Bawn Duke of Albany Duke of Argyll Duke of Clarence Duke of Connaught (I) Duke of Connaught (II) Duke of Cornwall Duke of Cumberland Duke of Lancaster Duke of York Earl of Ulster Ivernagh Kathleen Mavourneen Lune Mellifont Norah Creina Prince Arthur Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Royal Consort Thomas Dugdale Tredagh

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1915
Shipwrecks	1 May: Joule, HMS Recruit 2 May: America 3 May: Gul Djemal 7 May: Lusitania (sinking), HMS Maori 8 May: Don 12 May: HMS Goliath 23 May: SM UB-3, Peleng-i Derya 24 May: Turbine 25 May: HMS Triumph 27 May: HMS Majestic, HMS Princess Irene 29 May: T47, T51 31 May: Merion
Other incidents	1 May: Gulflight 14 May: Vasco da Gama 25 May: Rijndam 27 May: Merion
1914 1915 1916 April 1915 June 1915

55°20′N 1°18′W / 55.333°N 1.300°W / 55.333; -1.300

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