Tss Duke of Rothesay (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Duke of Rothesay was a railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1975. Along with her sister ships the TSS Duke of Lancaster and the TSS Duke of Argyll she was amongst the last passenger-only steamers built for (at that time, also a ferry operator). She was a replacement for the 1928 steamer built by the, RMS Duke of Rothesay. Built at William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton and completed in 1956, she was designed to operate as both a passenger ferry (primarily on the Heysham-Belfast route) and as a cruise ship.