SS ‘Dewsbury’ at Grimsby c1920s/1930s.

From a negative. The photo was taken at the Royal Dock, Grimsby.

SS ‘Dewsbury’ was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1910 by Earle’s Shipbuilding, Hull. A “new, saloon steamer”. She undertook her maiden voyage from Immingham to Antwerp on 17 June 1910. (Immingham was built as Grimsby’s deep water port. See the photo of SS ‘Dewsbury on our Immingham page.) This was at a time when Grimsby was the gateway to the continent with services to Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Esbjerg.

After WW2, she was in service on the Harwich-Antwerp route. Scrapped in 1959.