PS Thomas Dugdale (1873)

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History
Name:
  • 1873-1890: P.S. Thomas Dugdale
  • 1890-1893: P.S. Laurel
Owner:
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Route: 1873-1883:Belfast – Fleetwood
Builder: A. Leslie and Company, River Tyne
Out of service: 1893
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,000  gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 260ft

PS Thomas Dugdale was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1873 to 1883. [1]

London and North Western Railway former railway company in United Kingdom

The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the world.

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway British pre-grouping railway company

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in Northern England.

History

She was built by A. Leslie and Company on the River Tyne for the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for their services from Fleetwood.

A. Leslie and Company was a shipbuilding company that was started in around 1853, based North-East England. The company later merged with the locomotive manufacturer R and W Hawthorn to create Hawthorn Leslie and Company in 1886, when the founder Andrew Leslie retired.

River Tyne river in North East England

The River Tyne is a river in North East England and its length is 73 miles (118 km). It is formed by the confluence of two rivers: the North Tyne and the South Tyne. These two rivers converge at Warden Rock near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'.

Fleetwood town in Lancashire, England

Fleetwood is a coastal town in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde, with a population of 25,939 at the 2011 census.

She was named after one of the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

In 1882 she received new engines by Rankin and Blackmore.

She collided with PS Azalea of Glasgow, in Lough Foyle, on or about 4 September 1888. [2]

Lough Foyle estuary

Lough Foyle, sometimes Loch Foyle, is the estuary of the River Foyle, on the north coast of Ireland. It lies between County Londonderry in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. Sovereignty over these waters has been in dispute since the Partition of Ireland.

She was renamed P.S. Laurel around 1890.

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References

  1. ↑ Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
  2. ↑ Board of Trade Wreck Report for Azalea and Thomas Dugdale, 1888
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