PS Duchess of Sutherland (1868)

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History
Name: 1868-1908: PS/TSS Duchess of Sutherland
Owner: 1868-1908 London and North Western Railway
Operator: 1868-1908 London and North Western Railway
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Route: 1868-1908: Holyhead - Greenore
Builder: A. Leslie and Company
Launched: 1868
Out of service: 1908
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 893  gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 251 ft (77 m)
Beam: 30.1 ft (9.2 m)
Draught: 14.4 ft (4.4 m)

PS/TSS Duchess of Sutherland was a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1868 to 1908. [1]

London and North Western Railway former railway company in United Kingdom

The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the world.

History

She was built by A. Leslie and Company for the London and North Western Railway in 1868.

A. Leslie and Company was a shipbuilding company that was started in around 1853, based North-East England. The company later merged with the locomotive manufacturer R and W Hawthorn to create Hawthorn Leslie and Company in 1886, when the founder Andrew Leslie retired.

On 8 September 1875, she collided with the paddle steamer Edith in Holyhead which resulted in the sinking of Edith.

Holyhead town in the county of Anglesey in Wales

Holyhead is a town in Wales and a major Irish Sea port serving Ireland. It is also a community and the largest town in the Isle of Anglesey county, with a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census. Holyhead is on Holy Island, which is separated from Anglesey by the Cymyran Strait and was originally connected to Anglesey via the Four Mile Bridge and now by the Stanley Embankment.

She was converted from a paddle steamer to a twin screw steamer in 1888 by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead.

Cammell Laird British shipbuilding company

Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. The company came about following the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century. The company also built railway rolling stock until 1929, when that side of the business was separated and became part of the Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company.

Birkenhead town in Merseyside, England

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. Historically in Cheshire, it is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool. In the 2011 census, the Parliamentary constituency of Birkenhead had a population of 88,818.

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References

  1. ↑ Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
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