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*1891–1915: SS ''Nottingham''
*1915–1918: SS ''Notts''
*1918–1935: SS ''Nottingham''
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*1891–1897: [[Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway]]
*1897–1923: [[Great Central Railway]] 
*1915–1918: [[Royal Navy]] 
*1918–1923: [[Great Central Railway]] 
*1923–1935: [[London and North Eastern Railway]]
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'''SS ''Nottingham''''' was a passenger and freight vessel built for the [[Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway]] in 1891.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=English |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}</ref>

==History==

The ship was built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend and launched on 13 March 1891. She was placed on the Grimsby to Hamburg route with her sister ships SS Lutterworth and {{SS|Staveley|1891|6}}, but in 1897 she was transferred to the Grimsby to Rotterdam service.

In 1897 she was acquired by the [[Great Central Railway]].  On 11 December 1912 she went ashore in thick fog on Scrooby Sands. Despite the efforts of the tug, United Service, she could not be got off, so the 12 passengers were taken by United Service to Yarmouth, and landed them in the afternoon. She was refloated later that day.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Railway Steamer Ashore. Passengers and Baggage Landed by Tug |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19121212/059/0005 |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Scotland |date=12 December 1912 |access-date=6 November 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> A year later, on 26 December 1913, she was grounded again, this time on a mud bank near the Royal Dock in Grimsby.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Steamer Aground at Grimsby |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000273/19131226/144/0004 |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |location=England |date=26 December 1913 |access-date=6 November 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1915 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a naval supply vessel and became HMS Notts. After the war she was refurbished and returned to the [[Great Central Railway]] as SS Nottingham. In 1923 she was acquired by the [[London and North Eastern Railway]] who kept her in service until she was scrapped in 1935.

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[[Category:1891 ships]]
[[Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Tyne]]
[[Category:Ships of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway]]
[[Category:Ships of the Great Central Railway]]
[[Category:Ships of the London and North Eastern Railway]]