TSS Sir Richard Grenville (1891)

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History
Name:
  • 1891-1930: TSS Sir Richard Grenville
  • 1930-1931: TSS Penlee
  • 1932-1976: TSS Lady Savile
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number: 583
Launched: 1891
Out of service: 1976
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 420  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 132 feet (40 m)
Beam: 30.1 feet (9.2 m)
Draught: 12.5 feet (3.8 m)
Speed: 12.5 knots

TSS Sir Richard Grenville was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1891. [1]

Great Western Railway Former railway company in the United Kingdom

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the West Midlands, and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who chose a broad gauge of 7 ft —later slightly widened to 7 ft 1⁄4 in —but, from 1854, a series of amalgamations saw it also operate 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in standard-gauge trains; the last broad-gauge services were operated in 1892. The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally merged at the end of 1947 when it was nationalised and became the Western Region of British Railways.

History

TSS Sir Richard Grenville was built by Cammell Laird and launched in 1891. She left the Mersey on 30 April 1891. [2] She was intended as a tender to meet the large mail steamers frequenting Plymouth, and also as an excursion steamer along the coast.

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She was advertised for sale in 1921 but was eventually returned to service until sold in 1931, renamed Penlee to make way for a replacement Sir Richard Grenville then moved on to the Dover Harbour Board where she was renamed a second time to Lady Savile. [3]

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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. ↑ "New Steamer for the Great Western Railway" . Liverpool Mercury. Liverpool. 1 May 1891. Retrieved 17 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ Kittridge, Alan (1993). Plymouth – Ocean Liner Port of Call. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN   0-906294-30-4.
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