PS Suffolk (1895)

	PS Suffolk arriving in Ipswich, May 1904
History
Name	PS Suffolk
Operator	1895-1923:Great Eastern Railway; 1923-1931:London and North Eastern Railway;
Port of registry
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched	13 May 1895
Out of service	1931
Fate	Scrapped 1931
General characteristics
Tonnage	245 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	165 feet (50 m)
Beam	21 feet (6.4 m)
Depth	7.3 feet (2.2 m)

PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1895.[1]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900.[2] She was launched by Miss Nellie Howard, daughter of Captain D. Howard, the Marine Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead. Unusually she was launched with machinery on board complete, and with steam up, and she made a short run on the Humber estuary, prior to being berthed in the Victoria Dock

She was used on local services and coastal excursions.[3]

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and they scrapped her in 1931.

References

Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
"Addition to the Company's Fleet. Launched with steam up". Hull Daily Mail. Scotland. 13 May 1895. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.

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

[2] "Addition to the Company's Fleet. Launched with steam up". Hull Daily Mail. Scotland. 13 May 1895. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[3] Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.