TSS Ibex (1891)

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History
Name: 1891-1925: TSS Ibex
Operator: 1891-1925: Great Western Railway
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number: 584
Launched: 6 June 1891
Out of service: 14 April 1925
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,150  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 265 feet (81 m)
Beam: 32.5 feet (9.9 m)
Draught: 14.15 feet (4.31 m)
Installed power: 282 hp
Speed: 19 kts

TSS Ibex was a passenger 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

The Great Western Railway introduced three new steamers on the Weymouth to the Channel Islands service in 1889. The great acceleration of the service and the improved accommodation in the new steamers were quickly appreciated by the public, and the traffic grew to such an extent that the company ordered a fourth vessel in 1891. TSS Ibex was launched on 6 June 1891 by Mrs Laird. [2]

She struck the Noirmontaise rocks off Jersey on 16 April 1897 and was beached in Portlet Bay. The master of the ship was later found at fault and had his certificate suspended for six months. [3]

Jersey British Crown Dependency

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France. It is the second closest of the Channel Islands to France, after Alderney.

Less than three years later, on 5 January 1900, she struck a reef at St Peter Port, Guernsey, and sank within 10 minutes. [4] One passenger and one crewman died. She settled on a rock in eight fathoms of water. The board of enquiry found that the master was alone in default, and suspended him for 6 months. [5] She was raised on 21 July 1900 [6] and returned to service the following April after repairs.

Guernsey island in the bailiwick of Guernsey

Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. It lies roughly north of Saint-Malo and to the west of Jersey and the Cotentin Peninsula. With several smaller nearby islands, it forms a jurisdiction within the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. The jurisdiction is made up of ten parishes on the island of Guernsey, three other inhabited islands, and many small islets and rocks.

In 1916 a 12-pound gun was mounted on her stern; and on 18 April 1918 she fired on and sank a U-boat for which the crew received a £500 reward. [7]

U-boat German submarine of the First or Second World War

U-boat is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot[ˈuːboːt](listen), a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "underseaboat." While the German term refers to any submarine, the English one refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role and enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping. The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada and other parts of the British Empire, and from the United States to the United Kingdom and to the Soviet Union and the Allied territories in the Mediterranean. German submarines also destroyed Brazilian merchant ships during World War II, causing Brazil to declare war on the Axis powers in 1944.

She sailed on her last voyage on 14 April 1925. [8] She was cut up at Sharpness in 1925. [9]

Sharpness village in the United Kingdom

Sharpness is an English port in Gloucestershire, one of the most inland in Britain, and eighth largest in the South West. It is on the River Severn at grid reference SO669027, at a point where the tidal range, though less than at Avonmouth downstream, is still large.

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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 Channel Islands Service" . Liverpool Mercury. Liverpool. 8 June 1891. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Master of the Ibex" . Hull Daily Mail. Hull. 28 May 1897. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Mail Steamer founders off Guernsey. Sinks in 10 minutes" . Dundee Evening Telegraph. Dundee. 5 January 1900. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "The Loss of the Ibex - Judgment" . Leicester Chronicle. Leicester. 10 February 1900. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "The sunken mail steamer Ibex raised" . Edinburgh Evening News. Edinburgh. 21 July 1900. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Another Secret Out! £500 for sinking U-boat" . Hull Daily Mail. Hull. 6 January 1919. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Farewell to the Ibex - A Lament" . Western Gazette. England. 17 April 1925. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ Lucking, J.H. (1971). The Great Western at Weymouth. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN   0-7153-5135-4.
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