PS Earl Spencer (1874)

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History
Name: 1874-1896: PS Earl Spencer
Namesake: John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1868 to 1874
Owner: 1877-1896 London and North Western Railway
Operator: 1877-1896 London and North Western Railway
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Route: 1877-1896: Holyhead - Greenore
Builder: Cammell Laird
Yard number: 416
Launched: 1874
Out of service: 1896
General characteristics
Tonnage: 855  gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 253.7 ft (77.3 m)
Beam: 29.4 ft (9.0 m)
Draught: 14.7 ft (4.5 m)

PS Earl Spencer was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1877 to 1896. [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.

Cammell Laird built Earl Spencer for the London and North Western Railway in 1874. She did not enter into service until 1877.

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.

Citations

  1. ↑ Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
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