PS Cleethorpes (1903)

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History
Name:
  • 1903-1934:PS Cleethorpes
  • 1934-1935:PS Cruising Queen
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Gourlay Brothers, Dundee
Yard number: 209
Launched: 6 October 1903
Out of service: 1934
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 302  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 190.1 feet (57.9 m)
Beam: 25.5 feet (7.8 m)
Depth: 7.9 feet (2.4 m)

PS Cleethorpes was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1903. [1]

Great Central Railway British pre-grouping railway company (1897–1922)

The Great Central Railway in England came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway.

History

The ship was built by Gourlay Brothers of Dundee and launched on 6 October 1903 [2] by Miss Mills of Grimsby. She arrived in New Holland after a 24-hour voyage from Dundee on 21 November 1903. [3] She was used on the New Holland to Hull ferry service.

Gourlay Brothers was a marine engineering and shipbuilding company of Dundee, Scotland, active between 1846 and 1908.

Humber Ferry

The Humber Ferry was a ferry service on the Humber between Kingston upon Hull and New Holland in Lincolnshire which operated until the completion of the Humber Bridge in 1981.

In 1923 she transferred to the London and North Eastern Railway. She was sold in 1934 to the Redcliffe Shipping Company and renamed Cruising Queen. She was used on Firth of Forth pleasure cruises, but found unsuitable and scrapped in 1935.

London and North Eastern Railway British “Big 4” railway company, active 1923–1947

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region.

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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. ↑ "New Humber Steam Ferry. The Cleethorpes" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 7 October 1903. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "New Ferry Steamer Cleethorpes" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 23 November 1903. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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