SS Great Yarmouth was a freight vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1866.[1]
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Great Yarmouth |
| Operator | 1866–1873: Great Eastern Railway |
| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Thames Graving Dock Company |
| Launched | 1866 |
| Out of service | 1887 |
| Fate | Wrecked |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 731 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 199.9 feet (60.9 m) |
| Beam | 28.4 feet (8.7 m) |
| Depth | 17 feet (5.2 m) |
| Installed power | 100 hp |
| Speed | 10.5 knots |
History
editThe ship was built by the Thames Graving Dock Company in London in 1866. She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp cargo service. She was the first screw steamer in the Great Eastern Railway Company fleet.[2] The hold was built with a double lining, which could hold 100 tons of water, and had a powerful steam pump independent of the main engines connected to clear it. On each side were bunkers capable of storing 100 tons of coal.
On 28 December 1868 she came to the rescue of the steamship Berussia which had broken her main shaft on a voyage from New York to Hamburg. An attempt to tow the Berussia failed and the Great Yarmouth took some of the passengers and transferred them to Portland.[3]
She was sold to in 1873 to Thomas Gage Beatley and later ended up in the ownership of Mr Joseph Reay of Newcastle.
She was stranded at Skutskär in Åland in 1887, and a strong sea later destroyed the vessel.[4]
References
edit- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "The Screw Steamer Great Yarmouth". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 28 December 1866. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Severe Gale". Morning Post. England. 28 December 1868. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Loss of the steamer Great Yarmouth". Shields Daily Gazette. England. 7 October 1887. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.