PS Queen of the Bay (1867)

PS Queen of the Bay was a passenger vessel operated by the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company from 1873 to 1885[1]

History
Name: 1867-1894: P.S. Queen of the Bay
Operator:
  • 1867-1873:Blackpool Lytham and Southport Steam Packet Company
  • 1873-1885:West Cornwall Steam Ship Company
  • 1885 - 1889 Newport and Bristol Channel ExcursionCompany
  • 1889 - ???? John T Hutchins
Port of registry:
Route:
Builder: Henderson, Coulborn and Company
Yard number: 91
Launched: 1867
Out of service: 22 May 1894
Fate: Damaged by fire whilst on the River Usk and sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Tonnage: 138 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 131.5 ft (40.1 m)
Beam: 18.1 ft (5.5 m)
Capacity: 197 passengers

History

She was built by Henderson, Coulborn and Company in Renfrew and launched in 1867. She operated for the Blackpool, Lytham and Southport Steam Packet Company out of Morecambe for five years and then Blackpool for two years. She was sold to the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company in 1873 for £4,600[2] (equivalent to £410,595 in 2019).[3]

In 1885 she was sold for £2,250[4] (equivalent to £244,825 in 2019)[3] to the Bristol Channel and was operated by the Newport and Bristol Channel Excursion Company for four year. After a sale in 1889 to another Cardiff owner, she caught fire on the River Usk on 22 May 1894 and was sold for scrap.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "West Cornwall Steamship Company". West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Cornwall. 27 March 1873. Retrieved 10 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  4. "Cornwall". Royal Cornwall Gazette. Cornwall. 27 November 1885. Retrieved 10 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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