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| Builder: | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company |
| Yard number: | 49 |
| Launched: | 12 February 1895 |
| Out of service: | 1928 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 383 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 149.9 feet (45.7 m) |
| Beam: | 24.1 feet (7.3 m) |
SS Granuaile was a cargo vessel built in 1895. [1]
She was built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company and launched on 12 February 1895 as the Granuaile. She undertook her trials on 23 March 1895 [2] when she achieved the speed of 10.5 knots. Her engines were fitted by Muir and Houston.
She was acquired by the London and South Western Railway in 1916 and renamed Ulrica.
The London and South Western Railway was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Starting as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended from London to Plymouth via Salisbury and Exeter, with branches to Ilfracombe and Padstow and via Southampton to Bournemouth and Weymouth. It also had many routes connecting towns in Hampshire and Berkshire, including Portsmouth and Reading. In the grouping of railways in 1923 the LSWR amalgamated with other railways to create the Southern Railway.
She was taken over by the Southern Railway in 1923. On 8 March 1923 she struck the Roustel Rock, off St Sampson’s Harbour, and took in water, but managed to make it into St Peter’s Port Harbour. [3]
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent. The railway was formed by the amalgamation of several smaller railway companies, the largest of which were the London & South Western Railway (LSWR), the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR). The construction of what was to become the Southern Railway began in 1838 with the opening of the London and Southampton Railway, which was renamed the London & South Western Railway.
She remained until scrapped in 1928.
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