TSS Vienna was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1929.

[2] Lady Barrie was given a diamond and emerald brooch by the builders as a memento of the occasion.

On reaching the sinking vessel she took on board 131 passengers and their baggage and transferred them to Antwerp.

[4] In 1941 the ship was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport and served time in the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers and Bari.

In 1945 she returned to become a permanent leave ship for the British Army of the Rhine between Harwich and Hook of Holland.