PS Norfolk (1900)
PS Norfolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1900.[1]
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| Name: | PS Norfolk |
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| Builder: | Gourlay Brothers, Dundee |
| Launched: | 25 April 1900 |
| Out of service: | 1935 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 295 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 184 feet (56 m) |
| Beam: | 24.1 feet (7.3 m) |
| Draught: | 7 feet (2.1 m) |
History
The ship was built by Gourlay Brothers in Dundee for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900.[2] She was launched by Miss Janie Lyon. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead.
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 sold her in 1931 to D. Tweedie, Edinburgh. She was sent for scrapping in 1935.
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References
- Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- "A new steamer launched at Dundee". Dundee Evening Telegraph. Scotland. 25 April 1900. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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