PS Manchester (1876)

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History
Name: PS Manchester
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Goole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company
Launched: 1876
Out of service: 1914
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 221  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 159.7 feet (48.7 m)
Beam: 18.9 feet (5.8 m)
Depth: 8.4 feet (2.6 m)

PS Manchester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876. [1]

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847. The MS&LR changed its name to the Great Central Railway in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension.

History

The ship was built by the Goole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company and launched in 1876 [2] She was used for the Humber Ferry Service. In 1879 she was used by the Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales when they visited Grimsby for the opening of the New Union Dock. She was painted above the deck-line in black, blue and gold, and on her bows were painted the Prince of Wales’s feathers, and scrolls in a variety of colours, embracing the rose, the shamrock and the thistle. [3]

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On Sunday 13 January 1895 the New Holland Pier railway station was destroyed by fire. The Manchester transported her crew from Grimsby to aid with the rescue efforts. [4]

New Holland Pier railway station

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She was acquired by the Great Central Railway in 1897.

Great Central Railway British pre-grouping railway company (1897–1922)

The Great Central Railway in England came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway.

She was scrapped in 1914

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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. ↑ "Miscellaneous News" . Grantham Journal. England. 6 May 1876. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "The Royal Visit to Grimsby" . Leeds Mercury. England. 23 July 1879. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Great Fire at New Holland" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 14 January 1895. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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