SS Altona (1877)

History
Name:	1877-1914:SS Altona 1914-1927:SS River Crake
Operator:	1877-1895:Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company 1895-1905:Goole Steam Shipping Company 1905-1922:Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1922-1923:London and North Western Railway 1923-1927:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	William Thompson, Dundee
Yard number:	19
Launched:	13 February 1877
Out of service:	1927
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	672 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	202.1 feet (61.6 m)
Beam:	28.2 feet (8.6 m)
Depth:	13 feet (4.0 m)

SS Altona was a freight vessel built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1877.^[1]

History

The ship was built by William Thompson of Dundee for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company and launched on 13 February 1877.^[2]

in 1895 she was acquired by the Goole Steam Shipping Company.

In 1905 she was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1914 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and renamed River Crake. She returned to railway company control in 1916.

In 1922 she was acquired by the London and North Western Railway and one year later by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

She was scrapped in 1927.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
2. "Launch of a Steamer". Dundee Courier. Scotland. 16 February 1877. Retrieved 28 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).