PS Telegraph (1853)

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History
Name: 1853-1881: PS Telegraph
Owner:
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: J & G Thomson, Govan
Yard number: 8
Launched: 26 February 1853
Out of service: 1881
Fate: Scrapped.
General characteristics
Tonnage: 820  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 241 ft (73 m)
Beam: 27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)

PS Telegraph was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1859 to 1874. [1]

History

She was built by J & G Thomson of Govan for the Belfast Steamship Company, and in 1856 passed to the Chester and Holyhead Railway, which was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in 1859.

She ran aground on 27 January 1881 at Cooley Point, Ireland. She was salvaged but was beyond economical repair and scrapped in the same year. [2]

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References

  1. Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
  2. Patton, Brian (2007). Irish Sea Shipping. Kettering: Silver Link Publications. pp. 178–84. ISBN   978-1-85794-271-2.