SS Retford (1883)

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History
Name: TSS Retford
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Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 20 January 1883
General characteristics
Tonnage: 951  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 230.6 feet (70.3 m)
Beam: 32 feet (9.8 m)
Depth: 12.9 feet (3.9 m)

TSS Retford was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1883. [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 20 January 1883 by Miss Norfolk of Grimsby. [2] She had a top gallant forecastle, bridge and long poop extending to the bridge and there was accommodation under the poop for 30 first-class passengers, the second-class passengers accommodation was forward, and the emigrant’s quarter in the fore ‘tween decks. She was schooner rigged, with pole masts, and fitted with water ballast. On one of her early sailing, she made the run between Rotterdam quay and Grimsby dock in 15.5 hours. [3]

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

In January 1895 she was in collision in dense fog in the River Scheldt with the Swedish steamship Tellestoof which resulted in the foundering of the Tellestoof, but the whole of her crew were saved. The damage to the Retford was not sufficient to prevent her from returning to Grimsby. [4]

In 1903 she rescued the 17 crew of sister ship Huddersfield which had sunk after a collision with the Uto in the River Scheldt. [5]

SS Huddersfield was a passenger-cargo ship built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1872.

She was disposed of in 1910.

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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. ↑ "Launch of a M.S. and L. Steamer" . Sheffield Independent. England. 22 January 1883. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Trade between Grimsby and Hamburg" . Sheffield Daily Telegraph. England. 14 June 1883. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "A Grimsby Steamer in Collision" . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 29 January 1895. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Thrilling Story" . Tamworth Herald. England. 6 June 1903. Retrieved 11 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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