SS Blackburn (1910)

History
Name	SS Blackburn
Operator	Great Central Railway
Port of registry
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched	8 September 1910
Fate	Collision 8 December 190
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]

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.

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]

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.