SS Warrington (1886)

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History
Name: SS Warrington
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Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Swan Hunter
Yard number: 98
Launched: 9 June 1886
Fate: Wrecked 6 December 1903
General characteristics
Tonnage: 840  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 230 feet (70 m)
Beam: 30.1 feet (9.2 m)
Depth: 14.6 feet (4.5 m)

SS Warrington was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886. [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 and launched on 9 June 1886 by Mrs. Hunter. [2] She was built for the passenger a freight trade between Grimsby and Hamburg. She was the second of an order of two ships from Swan Hunter, the other being Northenden launched on 1 May 1886. The saloon furnishings were fitted with panels of Hungarian ash, the mouldings were of walnut, the stiles of oak with carved oak pilasters and Corinthian capitals. The mouldings throughout the saloon were of carved oak. She was despatched from the River Tyne on 24 July 1886. [3]

Swan Hunter shipbuilding design, engineering and management company

Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England.

SS Northenden was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886.

In 1897 she was acquired by the Great Central Railway. On Saturday 6 December 1903 she ran aground and was lost on the sands near Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast. [4] The Board of Trade enquiry in January 1904 found that Captain G. H. Morris was guilty of a grave error of judgment in relying solely upon the lights of vessels as evidence of his position. [5]

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.

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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 and Trial Trip from Wallsend" . Shields Daily Gazette. England. 10 June 1886. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "The M.S. and L. Railway Company's Steamers" . Shields Daily Gazette. England. 26 July 1886. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "The Loss of a G.C.R. Steamer" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 10 December 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "The Captain's Error of Judgment" . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 27 January 1904. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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