SS Barnsley (1876)

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History
Name:
  • 1876-1889:SS Barnsley
  • 1889-1905:SS Gomes VI
  • 1905-1909:SS Lobito
Operator:
  • 1876-1889:Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
  • 1889-1898:A Gomez, Lisbon
  • 1898-1905:Empreza de Navegação por Vapor para o Algarve e Guadiana, Lisbon
  • 1905-1905:J Soares Franco, Lisbon
  • 1905-1906:João Fonseca e Sá, Lisbon
  • 1905-1909:Empreza Nacional de Navegação, Lisbon
Port of registry:
  • 1876-1889: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
  • 1889-1909: Flag Portugal sea (1830).svg
Builder: John Elder and Company, Govan
Yard number: 200
Launched: 20 May 1876
Out of service: 4 February 1909
Fate: Sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage: 603  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 185.2 feet (56.4 m)
Beam: 27 feet (8.2 m)

SS Barnsley was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876. [1]

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History

Barnsley was built by John Elder and Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on 20 May 1876 [2] By Miss Jamieson. She was intended for the services from Grimsby, England, to Hamburg, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

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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. ↑ "Launches - Govan" . Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 22 May 1876. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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