SS Marylebone (1906)

SS Marylebone was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.[1]

SS 'Marylebone' (Railway Steamer), by A. J. Jansen
History
NameSS Marylebone
OperatorGreat Central Railway
BuilderCammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number673
Launched21 April 1906
Out of service1938
FateScrapped in Italy
General characteristics
Tonnage2,074 gross register tons (GRT)
Length270.2 feet (82.4 m)
Beam41.1 feet (12.5 m)
Depth20.3 feet (6.2 m)
Installed power1300 nhp
Propulsion3 Parsons steam turbines

History

The ship was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead and launched in 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being Immingham. She undertook her trials in December 1906 and was reported of achieving a speed of 17.25 knots for 24 hours, and over 6 hours, a speed of 18.4 knots.[2] She was built with accommodation for 60 first-class passengers in two-berth cabins, and 400 third-class passengers. She arrived in Grimsby on 6 January 1907 for her first voyage.[3]

The Parsons steam turbines of Marylebone and Immingham were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each being reduced from two to one.

In 1923 she passed to the London and North Eastern Railway and was sold in 1932 to the Tramp Shipping Development Company. She was renamed Velos, Arafat, and Velos again. She was scrapped in Italy in 1938.

Depictions

Two notable paintings exist of the Marylebone, one by George Race as a triple-screw steamer, circa 1906, in the collection of the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre, and one by A.J. Jansen of the vessel in 1913, in the University of Hull Art Collection. The 1913 painting depicts the Marylebone after conversion to a single-screw steamer.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "G.C.R. Turbine Steamer". Hull Daily Mail. England. 28 December 1906. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "G.C.R.'s New Steamers". Hull Daily Mail. England. 7 January 1907. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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