TSS Sir Richard Grenville was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1931.
[1] TSS Sir Richard Grenville was built by Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Hull and launched on 18 June 1931.
She was one of a pair built for tendering duties in Plymouth harbour, her sister TSS Sir John Hawkins being launched two years later.
During World War II she was used by the Admiralty at Plymouth, Scapa Flow and Pentland Firth.
[3] She eventually found a new owner and was renamed La Duchesse de Normandie for services around the Channel Islands.