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S.S. "Isle of Jersey" at St. Helier, Jersey

Flag: British
Call Sign: GRBQ (British Transport collective call sign GTZS)
Official No: 161678
Tonnage: 2143 Gross, 842 Net
Built: 1929 by Denny & Bros, Dumbarton, for the Southern Railway Company for the Southampton to Channel Islands ferry service
Launched: Launched at Dumbarton on 22nd October 1929 and delivered in January 1930
Engines: Two sets Parsons SR geared turbines, twin shaft, 5400 shp per shaft. Three oil fired SE return tube Scotch boilers, 200 lbs/sq in. Maximum speed of 19.5 knots (19.67 knots during 5 hour trials)
General: Length 306 ft (93.3 m), Beam 42 ft (12.8 m), Depth 16 ft (4.87 m), Draught 12.5 ft, (3.8 m).

Built to carry 756 First Class and 497 Third Class passengers.

Withdrawn from service end March 1959.

Sold to Mohammed Senussi Giabor for pilgrim service under the Libyan flag 2nd May 1960 and renamed "Libda", a service she was never to enter. After lay-up in Tripoli she was eventually sold to be scrapped in La Spezia early in 1963.
Position Held: 2nd Radio Officer
Date Joined: 11th July 1957 Southampton
Date Left: 16th September 1957 Southampton
Brief History: The Southern Railway Company was created in 1923 by the merger of the London & South Western Railway, the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Companies. The Southern Railway took over all the fleets and routes of these companies.

S.S. "Isle of Jersey" served as a Hospital Ship in Northern Waters during WWII, based at Scapa Flow. She arrived off Sword Beach on the 8th June 1944, leaving on the 9th June, thus playing her part in the D-Day Normandy operations.

In 1948, after the end of WWII, the company became part of the British Transport Commission and in 1979 the shipping interests of BTC came to an end when they were transferred to Sealink UK Limited.