PS Princess of Wales (1878)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | PS Princess of Wales |
| Operator | Great Eastern Railway |
| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company |
| Yard number | 203 |
| Launched | 4 February 1878 |
| Out of service | 1896 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,098 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 265.5 feet (80.9 m) |
| Beam | 30.4 feet (9.3 m) |
PS Princess of Wales was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1878.[1]
History
The ship was built by the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 4 February 1878.[2] She was launched by Miss Isabel Adams, daughter of the Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and named after the Princess of Wales, Alexandra of Denmark.
She was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp route.[3]
She was broken up in 1896.
References
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|dead-url=and|subscription=(help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "The G.E.R. Continental Service". Bury and Norwich Post. England. 12 February 1878. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ 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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