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| Ship name                = 1903–1933: SS ''Equity''
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*1888–1905: Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited
*1905–1922: [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]]
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'''SS ''Equity''''' was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=en |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}</ref>

==History==

She was built by [[Earle's Shipbuilding]]<ref name=Equity>{{csr|register=MSI|id=1091317|access-date=15 December 2009}}</ref> for the Co-operative Wholesale Society for their special trade between Hamburg and Goole and launched on 7 July 1888.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Society's Steamer at Hull |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000181/18880710/026/0003 |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=England |date=10 July 1888 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

On 19 November 1890 she collided with the steamer ''Cuxhaven'' from Hamburg in the Goole channel. The ''Cuxhaven'' received severe damage and was beached to prevent sinking.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Disasters to Shipping |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000289/18901119/052/0004 |newspaper=Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |location=England |date=19 November 1890 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> She grounded on sand at Goole in July 1891, but floated free on the next high tide.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The British Steamer Equity |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000287/18910715/013/0003 |newspaper=Shields Daily Gazette |location=England |date=15 July 1891 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In March 1896 the ship fireman, William Costello, was admitted to a charge of smuggling in {{convert|61|lbs|kg}} of compressed tobacco and {{convert|14|lbs|kg}} of cavendish, with an estimated duty of £24, 7s 6d. He was remanded for 8 days.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Smuggling on the Equity |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/18960330/047/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=30 March 1896 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>  She was badly damaged in a collision with the Goole Steam Shipping Company vessel ''Aire'' on 14 December 1896 in the River Humber.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Goole "Mail" Mems |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/18961215/060/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=15 December 1896 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

She was lengthened in 1900 with a revised tonnage of 924, and obtained in 1905 by the [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]] to be employed on the Goole – Hamburg service. She was captured in Hamburg in 1914 and was returned to her owners in 1918 having spent the war period mainly serving traffic to Finland from Germany. On 25 May 1920 she ran aground in [[fog]] on [[Alderney]] in the [[Channel Islands]] carrying a cargo of [[potato]]es from [[Jersey]];<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 May 1920 |page=21 |issue=42421 |column=C }}</ref> she was refloated on 15 June 1920.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 June 1920 |page=21 |issue=42439 |column=C }}</ref> In 1921 whilst on passage from Jersey to Goole on the 'potato trade' she grounded and sank but was later raised.

In 1922 she was taken over by the [[London and North Western Railway]], and in 1923 the [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]]. On 12 June 1925, she collided with the British steamer {{SS|Rena||2}} in the [[North Sea]] off the ''[[Would Lightship]]'' and was beached at [[Horsey, Norfolk]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 June 1925 |page=23 |issue=43987 |column=E }}</ref> On 16 December 1927 she collided with the British cargo ship {{SS|Eden Force||2}} at [[Antwerp]], [[Belgium]]; ''Eden Force'' was beached,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 December 1927 |page=20 |issue=44767 |column=D }}</ref> but later was patched and towed to [[Terneuzen]], [[Zeeland]], in the [[Netherlands]]. ''Equity'' again grounded at [[Alderney]] in June 1930, but despite being partially swamped she was salved again. She was eventually scrapped in December 1931 at [[Greenock]], [[Scotland]].<ref name=Equity/><ref>{{harvnb|Haws|1993|p=70}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|last=Haws|first=Duncan |title=Merchant Fleets - Britain's Railway Steamers - Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena |year=1993|publisher=TCL Publications|location=Hereford|isbn=0-946378-22-3}}

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