PS Guide (1869)

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History
Name:
  • 1869-1888:P.S. Guide
  • 1888-1897:S.S. Jubilant
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Havey and Company, Hayle
Launched: 7 September 1869 [1]
Out of service: 29 November 1897
Fate: Lost in a gale
General characteristics
Tonnage: 160  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 97.7 ft (29.8 m)
Beam: 19.8 ft (6.0 m)
Draught: 9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power: 70 hp
Propulsion: Single cylinder steam engine.

PS Guide was a passenger vessel built for the Dartmouth Steam Packet Company in 1869. [2]

History

She was built by Harvey and Company of Hayle and launched on 7 September 1869 by Miss Alice Vincent. Her owners, the Dartmouth Steam Packet Company intended her as a powerful steam tug boat, and a passenger vessel for the summer trade in trips to the Channel Islands and France.

She was sold to the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company in 1872 when they lost both of their vessels and kept in service until 1875.

The West Cornwall Steam Ship Company was established in 1870 to operate ferry services between Penzance, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly. It became the West Cornwall Steamship Company in 1907 and was wound up in 1917.

She was sold to Jackson and Ford of London and Milford in 1877, then Joseph Lawson of South Shields in 1883. In 1888 she was resold to John & David Morris, Pelaw Main and was reconstructed and converted to screw by Abbot & Co of Gateshead and renamed Jubilant. On 27 November 1897 it sailed from Maldon for the Tyne and its fate is unknown. In February 1898 it was assumed that the vessel was lost in the gale of 29 November 1897. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Launch" . Royal Cornwall Gazette. Cornwall. 11 September 1869. Retrieved 10 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  3. ↑ "Loss of a Newcastle Steamer" . Hartlepool Mail. Hartlepool. 9 February 1898. Retrieved 10 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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