SS Liberty (1900)

History
Name: 1903-1933:SS Liberty
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 1888
Out of service: December 1931
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 895 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 225 feet (69 m)
Beam: 33 feet (10 m)
Depth: 13.9 feet (4.2 m)

SS Liberty was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.[1]

History

She was built by Earle's Shipbuilding for the Co-operative Wholesale Society and launched on 13 January 1890 by Mrs. Taylor of Manchester.[2]

In December 1891 she went ashore in Cuxhaven, but was floated free and continued to Hamburg.[3] On Wednesday 14 February 1894, she rescued the Wilson liner SS Plato which had sprung a leak in a hurricane and was in danger of sinking. She towed the vessel into Hull. [4] On 29 November 1901 she collided off Brough Haven with the sloop Friend which was carrying a cargo of barley. The sloop sank, but the crew were saved. [5]

She was obtained in 1905 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

In 1922 she was taken over by the London and North Western Railway, and in 1923 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. She was eventually scrapped in December 1931 at Sunderland. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  2. ↑ "Launch at Messrs Earles Company". Hull Daily Mail. England. 13 January 1890. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ "News in a Nutshell". Shields Daily Gazette. England. 31 December 1891. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ "A Wilson Liner in Danger". York Herald. England. 17 February 1894. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  5. ↑ "A Boat Sunk. Crew Saved". Gloucestershire Echo. England. 30 November 1901. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ "1091322". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
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