PS Grimsby (1888)

History
Name	PS Grimsby
Operator	1888-1897:Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway; 1897-1923:Great Central Railway; 1923-1923:London and North Eastern Railway;
Port of registry
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched	8 December 1888
Out of service	1923
Fate	Scrapped 1923
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)

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

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]

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

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