SS Nottingham (1891)

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History
Name:
  • 1891-1915:SS Nottingham
  • 1915-1918:SS Notts
  • 1918-1935:SS Nottingham
Operator:
Builder: Swan Hunter
Yard number: 164
Launched: 13 March 1891
Out of service: 1935
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,033  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 240.2 feet (73.2 m)
Beam: 32 feet (9.8 m)
Depth: 15.2 feet (4.6 m)

SS Nottingham was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891. [1]

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847. The MS&LR changed its name to the Great Central Railway in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension.

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend and launched on 13 March 1891. She was placed on the Grimsby to Hamburg route with her sister ships SS Lutterworth and SS Staveley, but in 1897 she was transferred to the Grimsby to Rotterdam service.

SS Staveley was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891.

In 1897 she was acquired by the Great Central Railway. On 11 December 1912 she went ashore in thick fog on Scrooby Sands. Despite the efforts of the tug, United Service, she could not be got off, so the 12 passengers were taken by United Service to Yarmouth, and landed them in the afternoon. She was refloated later that day. [2] A year later, on 26 December 1913, she was grounded again, this time on a mud bank near the Royal Dock in Grimsby. [3]

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.

In 1915 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a naval supply vessel and became HMS Notts. After the war she was refurbished and returned to the Great Central Railway as SS Nottingham. In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway who kept her in service until she was scrapped in 1935.

London and North Eastern Railway British “Big 4” railway company, active 1923–1947

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region.

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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. ↑ "Railway Steamer Ashore. Passengers and Baggage Landed by Tug" . Aberdeen Journal. Scotland. 12 December 1912. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Steamer Aground at Grimsby" . Yorkshire Post. England. 26 December 1913. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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