| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
|
| Operator |
|
| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | John Elder and Company, Govan |
| Yard number | 212 |
| Launched | 13 January 1877 |
| Out of service | 1953 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1961 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 644 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 201 feet (61 m) |
| Beam | 27.1 feet (8.3 m) |
SS Sheffield was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1877. [1]
The ship was built by John Elder and Company of Govan and launched on 13 January 1877. She was designed for the passenger and cargo service between Grimsby and Hamburg and Antwerp. [2]
On 14 May 1893 she was badly damaged in a collision with the Londoner, and was only kept afloat by her watertight compartments. [3] The Londoner sank but the crew of 36 and 90 passengers were rescued by the Sheffield. Two of the first-class passengers were in their bunks near the point at which the Londoner was struck, and were firmly wedged in by the broken timber and ironwork, and it was only with extreme difficulty that they were rescued. The Ashton also came to the scene, and the passengers were transferred for landing them at North Shields. [4]
In 1897 she passed to the Great Central Railway. In 1910 she was sold to the Patriotic Steam Ship Company, and in 1911 to Joseph Constant in Grimsby. Finding herself in the Mediterranean Sea in 1914, she was seized by the Ottoman Navy for the duration of the First World War and renamed Selda. She was returned to her owners in 1919 and adopted her earlier name but instead of returning to Britain she was chartered to Greek operators. Sold in February 1924 to Persian owners and used in the next ramadan as a pilgrim carrier, still under the same name and British flag. [5] In 1926 she was sold to owners in Turkey and was renamed Huseyniye in 1926 and Seyyar in 1931. She was withdrawn from service in 1953 and scrapped in 1961.
The Wigham Richardson shipbuilding company was named after its founder, John Wigham Richardson (1837-1908), the son of Edward Richardson, a tanner from Newcastle upon Tyne, and Jane Wigham from Edinburgh.
Komagata Maru was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1890, was in German ownership until 1913, and then had a succession of Japanese owners until she was wrecked in 1926. She was launched as Stubbenhuk, renamed Sicilia in 1894, Komagata Maru in 1913 and Heian Maru in 1924.
SS Parthia (1870–1956) was an iron-hulled transatlantic ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland. Her sister ships were the Abyssinia and Algeria. Unlike her two sisters, Parthia was smaller, built in a different shipyard and had a slightly different funnel arrangement. The Parthia was retired by Cunard in 1883 and sold to John Elder & Co., who subsequently transferred her to the Guion Line. After serving with the Guion Line and operating on trans-Pacific routes with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, she was refitted and renamed Victoria.
TSS City of Belfast was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1893, renamed Nicolaos Togias in 1925, renamed Kephallinia in 1933 and sank in 1941. She was owned and registered in Britain until 1925, when she passed to Greek owners.
SS Staveley was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891.
SS Lutterworth was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891.
SS Northenden was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886.
SS Huddersfield was a passenger-cargo ship built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1872.
SS Bury was a passenger and cargo vessel completed for Britain's Great Central Railway in 1911. Bury was employed as a packet boat for the company between Harwich and the Hook of Holland for most of her career. During the Second World War Bury was outfitted as a convoy rescue ship.
SS Dewsbury was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1910.
SS Ashton was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1884.
SS Chester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1884.
TSS Retford was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1883.
SS Oldham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1888.
PS Manchester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876.
SS Lincoln was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1883.
SS Halifax was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1872.
SS Barnsley was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876.
PS Princess Margaret was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1893.
SS Laura was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1885.