PS Gael (1867)

PS Gael was a passenger vessel operated by the Great Western Railway from 1884 to 1891[1]

History
Name: 1863-1924: PS Gael
Operator:
Port of registry:
Route:
  • 1867-1884: Campbelltown - Glasgow
  • 1884 - 1888: Weymouth Cherbourg
  • 1888 - 1889: Penzance - Isles of Scilly
  • 1889 - 1891: General GWR duties
  • 1891 - 1914: Glasgow - Oban, Tobermory and Gairloch
  • 1914-1924: Clyde estuary
Builder: Robertson and Company, Greenock
Yard number: 1
Launched: 9 March 1864
Completed: 11 February 1867
Out of service: 1924
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 403 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 211 ft (64 m)
Beam: 23.2 ft (7.1 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Installed power: 150 hp
Propulsion: Rankin and Blackmore 2 Steam Oscillating Haystack Boilers.

History

This paddle steamer was launched on 9 March 1864 and completed on 11 February 1867[2] She was named by Miss Minnie Galbraith, daughter of Andrew Galbraith Esq, Johnstone Castle, ex-Provost of Glasgow and spent most of her years in Scotland. She was owned by the Clyde and Campbeltown Steam Packet Joint Stock Company.

She was bought in 1884 and operated by the GWR, mainly on its Weymouth routes but also for a time at Milford Haven and from 1887[3] - 1889 at Penzance for the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company.[4] In 1891 she returned to the Clyde for duties on routes from Glasgow to Oban, Tobermory and Gairloch.

She was scrapped in 1924.

References
  1. Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
  2. "Launch of the new Campbeltown Steamer Gael". Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette. Glasgow. 12 February 1867. Retrieved 8 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "Local Newsl". Cornishman. Cornwall. 28 April 1887. Retrieved 8 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5135-4.
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