PS Suffolk (1895)

PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1900.[1]

History
Name: PS Suffolk
Operator:
Port of registry:
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)

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
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "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.
  3. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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