SS Blackburn (1910)

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History
Name: SS Blackburn
Operator: Great Central Railway
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 8 September 1910
Out of service: 8 December 1910
Fate: Wrecked
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,634  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 265 feet (81 m)
Beam: 36 feet (11 m)
Depth: 17.4 feet (5.3 m)

SS Blackburn was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1910. [1]

Great Central Railway British pre-grouping railway company (1897–1922)

The Great Central Railway in England came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway.

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 8 September 1910 by Miss Joyce Evelyn Barwick of Grimsby. [2] She was one of an order for four ships, the others being Dewsbury, Accrington and Bury. She was built with accommodation for 100 first-class, 10 second-class and 300 third-class passengers.

Earle's Shipbuilding was an engineering company that was based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1845 to 1932.

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She had a very short career with the Great Central Railway as on 8 December 1910 she was in collision with the London steamer Rook off Sheringham, Norfolk. Twenty-eight crew and twenty-nine passengers escaped in three lifeboats. [3] The wreck was located five days later and found to be lying in three fathoms of water. It was marked with a buoy. [4]

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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. ↑ "The Blackburn launched. Ceremony at Earle's" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 8 September 1910. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Loss of a Railway Steamer" . Gloucestershire Echo. England. 9 December 1910. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "The Submerged Blackburn" . London Daily News. England. 13 December 1910. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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