PS Lune (1892)

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History
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Name
  • 1892–1913: PS Lune
  • 1913–1923: PS Melcombe Regis
Owner
Operator
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Route1892–1913: FleetwoodHeysham and Blackpool
Builder T.B. Seath & Co. of Rutherglen
Launched1892
Out of service1923
FateScrapped 1923
General characteristics
Tonnage253  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length129 ft (39 m)
Beam24 ft (7.3 m)

PS Lune was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1892 to 1913. [1]

History

Lune was built by T.B. Seath & Co. of Rutherglen for the Irish Sea joint service of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and London and North Western Railway in 1892. She operated a passenger service from Fleetwood to Heysham with pleasure trips also to Blackpool and Morecambe. [2]

In June 1913 she was sold to Cosens & Co Ltd in Weymouth and operated as PS Melcombe Regis on Cosen's Admiralty contract as a tender between Portland and Navy vessels at anchorage outside the harbour.

In 1918 the vessel was transferred to the inshore minesweeping service working in and around Belfast Lough and was based at Larne. In November of that year she was released back to her owners and in 1919 was laid up at Weymouth still in her wartime grey. [3]

She was scrapped in 1923/4 at Felixstowe.

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References

  1. Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
  2. "Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway - Services from Fleetwood and Belfast," http://simplonpc.co.uk/LMS-LYR1.html
  3. Haws, Duncan (1993):Merchant Fleets - Britain's Railway Steamers - Eastern & North Western + Zeeland and Stena; Hereford, TCL Publications; Page 87; ISBN   0-946378-22-3