PS Killingholme (1912)

History
Name	PS Killingholme
Operator	1912-1923:Great Central Railway; 1923-1945:London and North Eastern Railway;
Port of registry
Route	Humber Ferry
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched	23 February 1912
Out of service	1945
Fate	Scrapped 1945
General characteristics
Tonnage	217 DWT[1]; 508 gross register tons (GRT);
Length	195 feet (59 m)[1]
Beam	31.1 feet (9.5 m)[1]
Depth	8.7 feet (2.7 m)[1]
Propulsion	98 hp (73 kW)[1]

PS Killingholme was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1912.[2]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 23 February 1912[3] by Mrs Boothby, wife of Captain Boothby. She was one of an order of two new ships, the other being Brocklesby used for the New Holland to Hull ferry service.[4] She was used by King George V and Queen Mary on their visit to open the King George Dock in Immingham in July 1912.[1][5]

During the First World War she was a seaplane carrier for the Royal Navy, in which capacity she was struck by a torpedo and lost one of her paddles.[6]

She was withdrawn from regular service in 1934, but retained for excursions and as a spare ferry.

During the Second World War she was again requisitioned and used as a barrage balloon depot ship in the Humber.

She was scrapped in 1945.

References

"Packet Boats and Paddle Steamers". humberpacketboats.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
"New G.C.R. Ferry Steamer". Hull Daily Mail. England. 23 February 1912. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"Paddle Steamer Killingholme". kingswearcastle.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
"The Royal Visit to Immingham". Hull Daily Mail. England. 23 July 1912. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"A Hull Ferryboat at its last base". Hull Daily Mail. England. 13 November 1945. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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[humberpacket-1] "Packet Boats and Paddle Steamers". humberpacketboats.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.

[2] Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.

[3] "New G.C.R. Ferry Steamer". Hull Daily Mail. England. 23 February 1912. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[killingholme-4] "Paddle Steamer Killingholme". kingswearcastle.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.

[5] "The Royal Visit to Immingham". Hull Daily Mail. England. 23 July 1912. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[6] "A Hull Ferryboat at its last base". Hull Daily Mail. England. 13 November 1945. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.