title: TSS Slieve Donard (1921)
text: # TSS Slieve Donard (1921)
  
  TSS Slieve Donard was a steam turbine passenger and cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1921 to 1923, and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923 to 1948.
  
  ## History
  
  She was built by Cammell Laird in 1921 as the last ship for the London and North Western Railway and put on the Holyhead - Dublin route.
  
  She was named after the Slieve Donard (Irish: Sliabh Dónairt, derived from Sliabh Domhanghairt/Domhanghart) mountain in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the highest peak of the Mourne Mountains.
  
  She was generally employed on the Thursday mid-day trip from Dublin for the cattle-dealers returning from market.
  
  She was scrapped in 1954.
  
  