PS Waterford (1874)

PS Waterford was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1874.[1]

History
Name: PS Waterford
Operator: Great Western Railway
Port of registry:
Route: Milford Haven - Waterford
Builder: William Simons and Company, Renfrew
Yard number: 177
Launched: 1874
Out of service: 1905
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 912 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 251.8 feet (76.7 m)
Beam: 29.2 feet (8.9 m)

History

PS Waterford was built by William Simons and Company of Renfrew and launched in 1874 for the Great Western Railway. She was placed on the Milford Haven to Waterford route with her sister ships PS Milford and PS Limerick.

She was scrapped in 1905 at Garston.

References

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