PS Suffolk (1895)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | PS Suffolk |
| Operator: |
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| Port of registry: |
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| Builder: | Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull |
| Launched: | 13 May 1895 |
| Out of service: | 1931 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 245 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 165 feet (50 m) |
| Beam: | 21 feet (6.4 m) |
| Depth: | 7.3 feet (2.2 m) |
PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1900.[1]
History
The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900.[2] She was launched by Miss Nellie Howard, daughter of Captain D. Howard, the Marine Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead. Unusually she was launched with machinery on board complete, and with steam up, and she made a short run on the River Humber, prior to being berthed in the Victoria Dock
She was used on local services and coastal excursions.[3]
In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and they scrapped her in 1931.
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
- ↑ "Addition to the Company's Fleet. Launched with steam up.". Hull Daily Mail. Scotland. 13 May 1895. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0 946378 22 3.