Summary
PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1895.[1]
 PS Suffolk arriving in Ipswich, May 1904
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | PS Suffolk |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull |
| Launched | 13 May 1895 |
| Out of service | 1931 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1931 |
| 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) |
History edit
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 Humber estuary, 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 edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.