TSS Cromer was a cargo vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1902.

[1][page needed] The ship was built by Gourlay Brothers of Dundee and launched on 22 February 1902 by Miss A Howard.

[3][page needed] In 1915 she was attacked 15 miles off the Noord Hinder Lightship but the torpedo missed the ship.

[4][page needed] In 1916 she picked up from a lifeboat 23 men from the crew of the British steamer Empress of Midland which had been sunk.

[5][page needed] Later that same year Captain Beeching was presented with a gold watch, and the crew with silver watches to commemorate the sinking by the Cromer of a German submarine in the North Sea some two months previously.