TSS Duke of Albany

She was built by John Brown and Co. at Clydebank, Scotland, as part of a fleet of seven ships delivered by the company between 1892 and 1909. She operated on the Douglas-to-Heysham route as well as Liverpool-to-Belfast. She was also the vessel that carried one of the anchors for to Belfast. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914 for use by the Royal Navy during the First World War as an armed boarding steamer, serving as HMS Duke of Albany. She was torpedoed and sunk about 9:10 AM on 24 August 1916 by the Imperial German Navy submarine in the North Sea approximately 20 mi east of the Pentland Skerries at approximately . The subsequent Court of Inquiry into the sinking determined…