PS Sandown (1934)

PS Sandown was a passenger vessel built for the Southern Railway in 1934.[1]

Sandown (left) at Portsmouth Harbour on 15 July 1965
History
Name: PS Sandown
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Cost: £39,850
Yard number: 1272
Launched: 1 May 1934
Out of service: 16 July 1966
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 684 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 216 feet (66 m)
Beam: 29.1 feet (8.9 m)
Draught: 7 feet (2.1 m)
Speed: 14.5 knots
Capacity: 900 passengers

History

The ship was built by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton and launched on 1 May 1934[2] by Mrs E.J. Missenden, wife of the manager for the Southern Railway Company Docks at Southampton. Costing £39,850, she was one of two ships placed by the railway company, the other being Ryde.[3]

She was deployed on the Portsmouth to Ryde ferry service.

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948. On 30 June 1954, she went to the rescue of her sister ship Ryde which had mechanical difficulties. The Sandown managed to secure a tow line and tow her to Portsmouth Harbour. [4]

She was scrapped in 1966.

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References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Shipbuilder and State of Industry". Dundee Courier. Scotland. 2 May 1934. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Young, Andrew; Jennings, Toby (6 October 2017). "Without a Paddle". Steam Railway. Peterborough: Bauer Cosumer Media (472): 72–76. ISSN 0143-7232.
  4. "Steamer in Difficulty". Portsmouth Evening News. England. 30 June 1954. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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