skip to main content
Cymraeg
Cyngor Gwynedd
Residents > Libraries and archives > Archives and family history > Rhagorol online catalogue

Browse the archives

Back

XS/2171/1/181

The Railway ferry steamer S.S. Duke of York. Built 1935 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast for the LMS (London Midland and Scottish Railway Company). On Heysham - Belfast service and served as a transport during World War II. Transferred to Harwich-Hook of Holland service 1949. Modernised 1950-1951 to burn oil and changed to one funnel. After collision in 1953 was given new, finely raked bow. Sold to A.J. & D.J. Chandris 1963 and converted for cruise work including swimming pools. Renamed Fantasia.


Page Language

In accord with normal archival practice in Wales, details of documents are presented in the language of the document. Where details appear in Welsh, then Welsh is the language in which the document is written; where they are in English, the document is in English.