SS Saltmarshe
SS Saltmarshe was a freight vessel built for the Wetherall Steamship Company Limited in 1907.[1]
| History | |
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| Name: | 1907-1931:SS Saltmarshe |
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| Port of registry: |
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| Builder: | William Pickersgill and Company, Sunderland |
| Launched: | 9 May 1907 |
| Out of service: | December 1931 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 930 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 215 feet (66 m) |
| Beam: | 32.3 feet (9.8 m) |
| Draught: | 12.7 feet (3.9 m) |
History
She was built by William Pickersgill and Company in Sunderland for the Wetherall Steamship Company Limited and launched on 9 May 1907.[2] She was purchased in the same year by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.[3]
In 1922 the ship was transferred to the London and North Western Railway and in 1923 to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
She was sent for scrapping in December 1931.
References
- Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- "New Steamer for Goole". Hull Daily Mail. England. 7 June 1907. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "L. and Y. New Steamer". Hull Daily Mail. England. 26 September 1907. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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