PS Ipswich (1864)

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History
Name: PS Ipswich
Operator: 1864-1873:Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: James Ash, Cubitt Town, London
Launched: 1864
Out of service: 1873
General characteristics
Tonnage: 87  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 120.3 feet (36.7 m)
Beam: 15 feet (4.6 m)
Depth: 6.9 feet (2.1 m)

PS Ipswich was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1864. [1]

Great Eastern Railway pre-grouping British railway company

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

History

The ship was built by James Ash of Cubitt Town in London. She replaced the Eastern Counties ship Cardinal Wolsey on the Ipswich to Harwich service and made her maiden voyage on 25 August 1864. [2]

Cubitt Town Area on the Isle of Dogs in London, England

Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London (1860–1862), to which it is named after. It is on the east of the Isle, facing Royal Borough of Greenwich across the River Thames. To the west is Millwall, to the east and south is Greenwich, to the northwest Canary Wharf and to the north, across the Blue Bridge, is the rest of Poplar. It is in Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.

On 9 August 1865 she was returning from Harwich at low tide, and got aground near Hog Highland. A passenger named Gibbons anxious to get home, hailed a boat with three boys on it, and the boat went alongside. Gibbons and his wife got in. The boys in their ignorance, went in front of the paddle wheels. This was not seen by the Captain, who as the boys were pushing off, gave the order to go ahead, and the paddle wheel turned and the boat was broken and its occupants thrown overboard. Gibbons swam ashore. One of the boys got into trouble, and Alfred Cornish jumped off the steamer to his rescue. Mrs Gibbons was also in a bad state, but recovered sufficiently to go home, but she died of inflammation of the lungs the next day. [3]

She was withdrawn in 1873.

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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. ↑ "The Great Eastern Steam Traffic" . Essex Standard. England. 24 August 1864. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Fatal Accident on the River Orwell" . The Ipswich Journal. England. 12 August 1865. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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