TSS Amsterdam was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1930.

On 14 October 1932, she brought Prince George, Duke of Kent back from his tour of Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

[3] This included transporting the 51st Highland Division and Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment from Southampton to Le Havre in April 1940 as part of the British Expeditionary Force.

[7] A total of 55 patients, ten Royal Army Medical Corps staff, 30 crew and eleven prisoners of war were killed.

[8][9] Seventy five wounded soldiers were carried up and delivered into lifeboats, but two of the nurses, Dorothy Field, 32, and Mollie Evershed, 27, went back below and went down with the ship.