PS Manchester (1876)

PS Manchester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876.[1]

History
NamePS Manchester
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderGoole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company
Launched1876
Out of service1914
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage221 gross register tons (GRT)
Length159.7 feet (48.7 m)
Beam18.9 feet (5.8 m)
Depth8.4 feet (2.6 m)

History

The ship was built by the Goole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company and launched in 1876[2] She was used for the Humber Ferry Service. In 1879 she was used by the Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales when they visited Grimsby for the opening of the New Union Dock. She was painted above the deck-line in black, blue and gold, and on her bows were painted the Prince of Wales’s feathers, and scrolls in a variety of colours, embracing the rose, the shamrock and the thistle.[3]

On Sunday 13 January 1895 the New Holland Pier railway station was destroyed by fire. The Manchester transported her crew from Grimsby to aid with the rescue efforts.[4]

She was acquired by the Great Central Railway in 1897.

She was scrapped in 1914

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Miscellaneous News". Grantham Journal. England. 6 May 1876. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "The Royal Visit to Grimsby". Leeds Mercury. England. 23 July 1879. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "Great Fire at New Holland". Hull Daily Mail. England. 14 January 1895. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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