TSS Duchess of Devonshire was a passenger ship built for the Barrow Steam Navigation Company in 1897.

Her maiden voyage from Barrow to Belfast was on 9 April 1897[4] under the command of Captain Myerscough, in a journey time of just under six hours.

The Midland Railway bought her in 1907[5] In 1914 the Admiralty requisitioned her and had her converted into an armed boarding steamer.

On 25 September 1922 she was involved in a minor collision with the coasting steamer Trevor which was between Laxey and Douglas.

[6] In 1923 she passed to the London Midland and Scottish Railway, who in 1928 sold her to Bland Line of Gibraltar who renamed her Gibel Dersa.