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History
 United Kingdom
NameSS Derwent
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderWilliam Dobson and Co, Walker Yard[1]
Yard number24
Launched12 June 1888
Completed1888
Out of service1931
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage830 gross register tons (GRT)
Length230 feet (70 m)
Beam30.7 feet (9.4 m)
Draught14.7 feet (4.5 m)
Propulsion1 x screw, T3cyl (19, 33.5 & 54 x 33ins), 185nhp

SS Derwent was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1888.[2]

History

The ship was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard for the Goole Steam Shipping Company and launched on 12 June 1888.[3] The engines were manufactured by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, and she was constructed under the supervision of Mr Sisson, the inspecting engineer for the Goole Company.[4]

On 19 September 1898 she was hit by her sister ship Dresden which was inward bound to Goole.[5]

In 1905 she was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

In October 1908 she was in collision with the British brigantine Enterprise of Folkestone, and caused her to sink. All hands on the Enterprise bar one were lost.[6]

On 28 August 1912 she was anchored midstream in Goole waiting to enter the lock, when a strong southerly wind caused her to sheer into her sister ship Ralph Creyke which was outbound with a full cargo of coal. Derwent’s anchor chain became caught in Ralph Creyke’s propeller and her engines were stopped. The accident required Ralph Creyke to be drydocked to remove the chain.[7]

In 1922, Derwent was acquired by the London and North Western Railway and one year later by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. She was scrapped in 1931 by T Young in Sunderland.

References

  1. ^ "SS Derwent (1888)". www.tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ "Lloyds Shipbuilding Returns". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 9 July 1888. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Launch at Low Walker". Shields Daily Gazette. England. 13 June 1888. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Collision in the Ouse". Hull Daily Mail. England. 20 September 1898. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Two vessels sunk". Gloucestershire Echo. England. 28 October 1908. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "Remarkable Shipping Accident". Gloucestershire Citizen. England. 30 August 1912. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
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