General Steam Navigation
Page 2 - Freighters
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This page is one of a series of pages devoted to postcards and photographs of the General Steam Navigation Company (GSN). It covers the cargo and cargo-passenger vessels of GSN. Many of the classic GSN cargo-passenger ships from around the turn of the century are shown, but only a representative selection of later cargo-only vessels is illustrated so far.
A list of ship on this page
is shown below. A selection of
GSN freighters
is shown beneath this. The
GSN Header Page
gives links to complete history pages on selected individual ships in the GSN fleet.
Ships on this Page:-
Alouette (1)
- 1901-1924
Auk (3)
- 1949-1965
Blisworth
- 1940
Corncrake (2)
- 1946-1967
Drake (1)
- 1908-19??,1914-1917 - was
Wildrake
19??-1914
Drake (3)
- 1938-1966
Fauvette
- 1912-1915
Greenfinch
- 1946-1966
Halcyon (2)
- 1915-1916
Hirondelle
- 1890-1917
Gannet
- 1921-1953
Grebe (3)
- 1948-1967
Grive
- 1905-1917
Lapwing
- 1879-1911
Leeuarden (1)
- 1903-1915
Oriole (4)
- 1939-1962
Ortolan (1)
- 1902-1917
Peregrine (2)
- 1891-1917
Peregrine (4)
- 1946-1965
Petrel (3)
- 1945-1961
Philomel (4)
- 1936-1957
Philomel (6)
- 1961-1968
Ptarmigan (3)
- 1948-1963
Seamew (3)
- 1947-1966
Swift (5)
- 1950-1967
Wildrake
- 19??-1914 - ex-
Drake (1)
, later reverted to
Drake (1)
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GSN Header Page
GSN Paddlesteamers
GSN Freighters
GSN Passenger Motorships
New Medway SP Co
Normandy Ferries
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P&O Ferries Header Page
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GSN Freighters
Lapwing (1879-1911)
Photographic postcard of
Lapwing
.
Hirondelle (1890-1917)
Hirondelle
. was built in 1890, and was used on the London-Bordeaux and Harwich-Hamburg routes. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay in 1917.
GSN official company postcard of
Hirondelle
.
Photographic postcard of
Hirondelle
.
Peregrine (2) (1892-1917)
Peregine (1)
was built in 1891 and sold the same year to Howard Smith of Melbourne.
Peregine (2)
was built the following year, and served on the Harwich to hamburg and Rotterdam routes. She was wrecked in 1917 off the Essex coast.
GSN postcard of
Peregine (2)
.
Photographic postcard of
Peregine (2)
.
Alouette (1894-1924)
Alouette
was built as the
Calvados
for the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1894. She was bought by GSN in 1901 and renamed
Alouette
. She was scrapped in 1924.
GSN company postcard of
Alouette
.
Photographic postcard of
Alouette
.
Ortolan (1) (1902-1917)
French postcard of
Ortolan (1)
at Bordeaux.
Photographic postcard of
Ortolan (1)
.
Leeuarden (1903-1915)
Judges postcard of
Leeuarden
.
Photographic postcard of
Leeuarden
.
Grive (1905-1917)
French postcard of
Grive
at Bordeaux.
French postcard of
Grive
at Bordeaux.
Drake (1) - Wildrake (1908-1917)
Drake (1)
was built in 1908, but later renamed
Wildrake
. In 1914 she reverted to
Drake (1)
, and was sunk by U-boat in 1917.
Photographic postcard of
Drake (1)
.
Fauvette (1912-1915)
French postcard of
Fauvette
at Bordeaux.
Photographic postcard of
Fauvette
.
Halcyon (2) (1915-1916)
GSN company postcard of
Halcyon (2)
.
Gannet (2) (1921-1953)
Photographic postcard of
Gannet (2)
.
Photographic postcard of
Gannet (2)
.
Philomel (4) (1936-1957)
Philomel (4)
was built for GSN in 1936. She was sold to Italy as
Croce Guiseppe
in 1957. She was 2122 gross tons.
Photographic postcard of
Philomel (4)
.
Drake (3) (1938-1966)
Photographic postcard of
Drake (3)
.
Photographic postcard of
Drake (3)
.
Oriole (4) (1939-1962)
Photographic postcard of
Oriole (4)
.
Blisworth (1940)
Photographic postcard of
Blisworth
.
Petrel (3) (1945-1961)
Photographic postcard of
Petel (3)
.