PS Norfolk (1900)

History
Name	PS Norfolk
Operator	1900–1923: Great Eastern Railway 1923–1931: London and North Eastern Railway 1931–1935: D. Tweedie, Edinburgh
Port of registry
Builder	Gourlay Brothers, Dundee
Launched	25 April 1900
Out of service	1935
Fate	Scrapped 1935
General characteristics
Tonnage	295  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length	184 feet (56 m)
Beam	24.1 feet (7.3 m)
Draught	7 feet (2.1 m)

PS Norfolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1900. ^[1]

History

The ship was built by Gourlay Brothers in Dundee for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900. ^[2] She was launched by Miss Janie Lyon. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead.

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

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and they sold her in 1931 to D. Tweedie, Edinburgh. She was sent for scrapping in 1935.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "A new steamer launched at Dundee" . Dundee Evening Telegraph. Scotland. 25 April 1900. 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.