SS Alt (1911)

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Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Name: 1911-1940:SS Alt
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: William Dobson and Company, Walker Yard, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [1]
Yard number: 175
Launched: 25 October 1911
Completed: Dec 1911
Out of service: January 1955
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,004  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 240.2 feet (73.2 m)
Beam: 34.2 feet (10.4 m)
Draught: 15.4 feet (4.7 m)

SS Alt was a freight vessel built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1911. [2]

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 William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and launched on 25 October 1911.

Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Walker is a residential suburb and electoral ward just east of the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The population at the 2011 census was 11,701.

In May 1916 she was in collision with the French steamer Iles Chausey. The Iles Chausey sank with six men missing. [3]

In 1922 she transferred to the London and North Western Railway and in 1923 to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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 United Kingdom.

London, Midland and Scottish Railway British “Big 4” railway company, active 1923–1947

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four. The companies merged into the LMS included the London and North Western Railway, Midland Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, several Scottish railway companies, and numerous other, smaller ventures.

On 2 June 1932, whilst in the west dock in Goole, there was a serious fire in the store room adjacent to the engine room. [4]

In 1948 she was taken over by the British Transport Commission. She was scrapped in January 1955.

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References

  1. ↑ "SS Alt (1911)". www.tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  3. ↑ "Steamers Collide" . Dundee Evening Telegraph. Scotland. 23 May 1916. Retrieved 24 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Fire on Goole Steamer" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 3 June 1932. Retrieved 24 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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