PS Stour (1878)

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History
Name: PS Stour
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Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Launched: 1878
General characteristics
Tonnage: 112  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 125 feet (38 m)
Beam: 17.6 feet (5.4 m)
Depth: 6.8 feet (2.1 m)

PS Stour was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1878. [1]

Great Eastern Railway pre-grouping British railway company

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

History

The ship was built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company in London as a replacement for the Stour (1864). She was placed on the Ipswich to Harwich service.

Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company

The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Limited was a shipyard and iron works straddling the mouth of Bow Creek at its confluence with the River Thames, at Leamouth Wharf on the west side and at Canning Town on the east side. Its main activity was shipbuilding, but it also diversified into civil engineering, marine engines, cranes, electrical engineering and motor cars.

PS Stour was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1864.

Ipswich Town and Borough in England

Ipswich is a historic county town in Suffolk, England, located in East Anglia about 66 miles (106 km) north-east of London. The town has been continuously occupied since the Saxon period, and its port has been one of England's most important for the whole of its history. The modern name is derived from the medieval name Gippeswic, likely taken either from an Old Saxon personal name or from an earlier name of the Orwell estuary. It has also been known as Gyppewicus and Yppswyche.

On 4 August 1891, she was used as a decoy for the departure of the Empress of Germany, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and her children. The Empress was due to depart from Felixstowe in the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. The Stour was laid with crimson carpet on the deck and seating arranged under an awning. The Stour was brought alongside Felixstowe pier, on which a large crowd had assembled to witness the departure. However, a small steam launch belonging to the Victoria and Albert was kept in a corner of the Felixstowe Dock, and the Empress transferred from her carriage to the launch, and reached the Victoria and Albert without using the Stour. [2]

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein German empress

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the last German empress and queen of Prussia by marriage to Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

Felixstowe town in Suffolk, England

Felixstowe is a seaside town in Suffolk, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 23,689. The Port of Felixstowe is the largest container port in the United Kingdom.

On 16 June 1898, while crossing from Felixstowe to Harwich, Stour ran into the Trinity boat anchored off Felixstowe. She had her gangway carried away, and a large portion of the paddlebox, and one of the paddles was damaged. [3]

She was sold in 1900 to the Thames Steamboat Company.

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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. ↑ "Departure of the German Empress from Felixstowe" . The Ipswich Journal. England. 8 August 1891. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "G.E.R. Ferry Steamer in Collision" . Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 17 June 1898. Retrieved 6 November 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
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