PS Essex (1896)

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The PS Essex at New Cut, Ipswich circa 1904 (4343899730) (cropped).jpg
The PS Essex at New Cut, Ipswich circa 1904
History
Name:
  • 1896-1918:PS Essex
  • 1918-????:PS Acropolis
Operator:
  • 1896-1913:Great Eastern Railway
  • 1913-1914:Joseph Constant
  • 1914-1916:Henry Cooner, Westcliff
  • 1916-1918:Goole and Hull Steam Packet Company
  • 1918-????:Hellenic Mediterranean Black Sea Company, Pireaus
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 8 June 1896
General characteristics
Tonnage: 297  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 175.5 feet (53.5 m)
Beam: 23.1 feet (7.0 m)
Depth: 7 feet (2.1 m)

PS Essex was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1896. [1]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 8 June 1896. [2] She was launched by Miss K. Howard, daughter of Captain D. Howard, the Great Eastern Railway Company marine superintendent. She was launched with engines and boilers on board, and steam up.

She was used on local services and coastal excursions. [3]

In 1913 she was sold to Joseph Constant who sold her in 1914 to Henry Cooner, Westcliff. She was acquired by the Goole and Hull Steam Packet Company who held onto her until 1918 when she was sold again to the Hellenic Mediterranean Black Sea Company and renamed Acropolis.

She sailed from Hull on 10 May 1919 for Gibraltar and was reported as foundering on 16 May off Finisterre. [4] However, this report was later contradicted as she only left Corunna on 22 May 1919. [5]

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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. ↑ "For the Great Eastern Railway. New Paddle Steamer launched in Hull" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 9 June 1896. Retrieved 3 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN   0-946378-22-3.
  4. ↑ "Reported loss of a steamer" . Aberdeen Journal. Scotland. 29 May 1919. Retrieved 3 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Erroneous Report about Hull trader" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 29 May 1919. Retrieved 3 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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