PS Wingfield Castle

The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.[4]

The PSS Wingfield Castle located Hartlepool's Maritime Experience in Hartlepool
History
United Kingdom
Name: PSS Wingfield Castle
Namesake: Wingfield Castle
Owner:
Route: Humber Ferry crossing
Ordered: 1934
Builder: William Gray & Company, Hartlepool, England[1]
Laid down: 27 June 1934[3]
Commissioned: 24 September 1934[1]
Decommissioned: 1974[1]
Identification: IMO number: 5392018
Status: Museum ship at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience[4]
General characteristics
Type: Paddlesteamer
Tonnage: 556 GT[1]
Length:
Beam:
  • 33.1 ft (10.1 m) (main hull)[1]
  • 57 ft (17 m) (including paddle box)[1]
Propulsion: Triple expansion, diagonal stroke, reciprocating steam engine[3]
Speed: 12.0 knots (22.2 km/h; 13.8 mph)[4]

The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle.[5] A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.[3]

She was earmarked to become a floating restaurant in Swansea Marina in the early 1980s but was too wide to fit through the lock gates.[3] She is now preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool as a floating exhibit at Jackson Dock, as part of the Hartlepool's Maritime Experience visitor attraction, which also includes HMS Trincomalee.[3][4]

Pictures
  • The Wingfield Castle in September 1973 on River Humber
  • The Wingfield Castle funnel in September 1973
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See also

References
  1. "P.S. Wingfield Castle". paddlesteamers.info. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. "Wingfield Castle". nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  3. "PSS Wingfield Castle History". thisishartlepool.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. "Hartlepool's Maritime Experience - Pss Wingfield Castle". hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  5. Baker, Clive (December 2017). "Railway Steamers". British Railway Modelling. Warners Group. p. 83. ISSN 0968-0764.



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