PS Richard Young

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History
Name
  • 1871-1890:Richard Young
  • 1890-1905:Brandon
Operator Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder J & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London
Launched1871
Out of service1905
FateScrapped 1905
General characteristics
Tonnage
Length
  • 1871-1890:239.8 feet (73.1 m)
  • 1890-1905:245 feet (75 m)
Beam27 feet (8.2 m)
Depth13.5 feet (4.1 m)

PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1871. [1]

History

The ship was built by J & W Dudgeon in Cubitt Town London for the Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871. [2]

Named after a director of the railway company, she was used for their Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services. [3] [4]

In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon.

She was scrapped in 1905.

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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. ↑ "Harwich. Continental Steamers" . The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 11 November 1871. Retrieved 3 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "The Continental Traffic". The Chelmsford Chronicle. No. 5577. 10 November 1871. p. 6. Retrieved 30 August 2022– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 40. ISBN   0-946378-22-3.
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