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History
Name	1910–1914: SS Sarnia 1914–1918: HMS Sarnia
Operator	London and South Western Railway
Port of registry
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number	765
Launched	9 July 1910
Fate	Sunk 12 September 1918
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,498 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	284.6 feet (86.7 m)
Beam	39.1 feet (11.9 m)
Draught	15.8 feet (4.8 m)
Installed power	Two double ended marine boilers
Propulsion	Set of Parsons turbines driving 3 shafts
Speed	20 knots
Crew	48

SS Sarnia was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1910. During the First World War, she served in the Royal Navy as the armed boarding steamer HMS Sarnia.

History

Sarnia was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England, and launched on 9 July 1910. Propulsion was by two double ended marine boilers providing steam for a set of Parsons turbines driving three shafts. Passenger accommodations were for 186 first and 114 second class passengers supported by 48 crew. Sarnia was one of a pair of ships ordered by the London and South Western Railway, the other being Caesarea. They were the first turbine steamers ordered by the railway company. They were deployed on the route to the Channel Islands for a few years until the outbreak of the First World War.

The Admiralty requisitioned her during the First World War for use by the Royal Navy and reconfigured her as the armed boarding steamer HMS Sarnia. On 28 October 1915 she collided with the auxiliary minesweeper HMS Hythe in the Dardanelles; Hythe sank with the loss of 154 lives.

The Imperial German Navy submarine SM U-65 sank Sarnia in the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria, Egypt, (31°58′N 30°55′E / 31.967°N 30.917°E / 31.967; 30.917) on 12 September 1918 with the loss of 53 crew.

References

1. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips". International Marine Engineering. 33 (September). Marine Engineering, Inc., New York—London: 67–68. 1910. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
2. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
3. "David Reginald Salomons, First World War hero". Canterbury Christ Church University. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
4. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Sarnia". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 17 October 2012.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in October 1915
Shipwrecks	3 Oct: Iki 17 Oct: Isfahan 23 Oct: Marquette, SMS Prinz Adalbert 25 Oct: HMS Velox 28 Oct: HMS Argyll 31 Oct: HMS Louis Unknown date: USS Stranger
Other incidents	28 Oct: HMS Sarnia Unknown date: HSwMS Hvalen
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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1918
Shipwrecks	1 Sep: Mesaba, City of Glasgow 4 Sep: Bogstad 5 Sep: SM UC-91 9 Sep: SM U-92 10 Sep: SM UB-83 15 Sep: HMS Sarnia 16 Sep: USS Buena Ventura, HMS Glatton 20 Sep: Circé 25 Sep: SM U-156 27 Sep: USCGC Tampa 29 Sep: SM UB-115 30 Sep: USS Ticonderoga, SM U-102, SM UB-127 Unknown date: SM UB-104, SM UB-113
Other incidents	5 Sep: USS Mount Vernon 6 Sep: D.R. Hanna, USS Hisko 8 Sep: HMS Amphitrite 12 Sep: USFS Auklet, SS Princess Sophia 27 Sep: USS Relief, USS Williams 29 Sep: USS Minnesota
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• 1910 ships
• Steamships of the United Kingdom
• Ships of the London and South Western Railway
• Ships built on the River Mersey
• Maritime incidents in 1915
• Maritime incidents in 1918
• Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
• World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea