PS Claud Hamilton (1875)

History
Name:	PS Claud Hamilton
Operator:	1875-1897:Great Eastern Railway; 1897-1914:Corporation of London;
Port of registry:
Builder:	John Elder and Company, Fairfield, Govan
Yard number:	187
Launched:	3 June 1875
Out of service:	26 August 1914
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	962 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	251.6 feet (76.7 m)
Beam:	30.2 feet (9.2 m)

PS Claud Hamilton was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1875.[1]

History

The ship was built by John Elder and Company of Govan for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 3 June 1875.[2] She was named after the chairman of the Great Eastern Railway, Lord Claude Hamilton. She was despatched from the shipyard on 13 August 1875 and arrived in Harwich on 15 August, after a voyage around the north coast of Scotland via Pentland Firth. Her first captain was William Rivers.[3]

In 1897 she was sold to the Corporation of London and used for transporting cattle. She was sent for scrapping in 1914.[4]

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References

Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
"The continental traffic". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 11 June 1875. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"Harwich. Arrival of the Claud Hamilton". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 20 August 1875. Retrieved 31 October 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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[1] Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.

[2] "The continental traffic". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 11 June 1875. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[3] "Harwich. Arrival of the Claud Hamilton". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 20 August 1875. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[4] 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)