PS Lymington (1893)

History
Name: PS Lymington
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Day, Summers and Company, Southampton
Cost: £6,000
Launched: 6 April 1893
General characteristics
Tonnage: 130 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 120.2 feet (36.6 m)
Beam: 18.1 feet (5.5 m)
Draught: 7.7 feet (2.3 m)

PS Lymington was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1893.[1]

History

She was built by Day, Summers and Company in Southampton and launched on 6 April 1893.

She cost £6,000 (equivalent to £610,000 in 2016)[2] and was 120 feet (37 m) long.[3] and was used for the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry service.

She was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1923.

She was disposed of is 1929 and converted into a houseboat at Yarmouth and renamed Glengarry. Later she was used as the Norwich Sea Cadets’ training vessel Lord Nelson.

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ↑ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  3. ↑ R A Williams, The London and South Western Railway, Volume 2: Growth and Consolidation, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973, ISBN 0 7153 5940 1
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