PS Grimsby (1888)

PS Grimsby was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1888.[1]

History
Name: PS Grimsby
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 8 December 1888
Out of service: 1923
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 351 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 180 feet (55 m)
Beam: 25.4 feet (7.7 m)
Depth: 7.4 feet (2.3 m)

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 8 December 1888[2] by Miss J.M.C. Cook. She was used on the New Holland to Hull ferry service.

In 1923 she transferred to the London and North Eastern Railway. She was scrapped in 1923. [3]

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Hull – Launch of a new ferry steamer". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 10 December 1888. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "A New Holland Explosion". Hull Daily Mail. England. 19 July 1923. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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