SS Munich (1908)

SS Munich was a North Sea passenger ferry that was built in Scotland in 1908 for the Great Eastern Railway (GER).

Early in the Second World War St Denis was requisitioned as a troop ship.

Munich was the second of three sister ships that John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Dumbartonshire built for the GER.

[3] She was the daughter of Sir Arthur Tredgold Lawson, Baronet, who was a GER director.

[9] In 1914 the Admiralty requisitioned Munich, had her converted into a hospital ship, and renamed her St.

[citation needed] The Kriegsmarine had her raised, renamed her Skorpion, and started to have her converted into a minelayer.

[12] In 1950 she was towed to Sunderland, where she arrived on 2 March to be scrapped by Thomas Young and Sons.