SS Oldham (1888)

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History
Name: SS Oldham
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Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 1 November 1888
General characteristics
Tonnage: 846  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 240 feet (73 m)
Beam: 30 feet (9.1 m)
Depth: 14.6 feet (4.5 m)

SS Oldham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1888. [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 Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull and launched on 1 November 1888 [2] by Miss Evelyn Button (aged 6). [3] She was fitted with water ballast in a double bottom on the cellular system, and arranged with poop, bridge, and top-gallant forecastle. Accommodation was provided in the poop for forty first-class passengers, with dining saloon in polished hardwoods. The officers and engineers were berthed under the bridge, and the crew in the forecastle. She was also fitted with portable berths for emigrants. She was schooner rigged, and equipped with three steam winches and two steam cranes for handling cargo.

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

She was acquired by the Great Central Railway in 1897.

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.

She was sold in 1913 to Greek owners and renamed Eleftheria.

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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. ↑ "Hull v. Grimsby" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 5 November 1888. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Launch at Messrs. Earle's Shipbuilding Yard" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 2 November 1888. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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