TSS Carlotta
 Carlotta in 1905
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | 1893-1930:TSS Carlotta |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | A.W. Richardson and Company, London |
| Launched | 1893 |
| Out of service | 1930 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 261 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 124.6 feet (38.0 m) |
| Beam | 32.4 feet (9.9 m) |
| Draught | 7.6 feet (2.3 m) |
TSS Carlotta was a passenger vessel built for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1892.[1]
History
TSS Carlotta was built by A.W. Richardson and Company, London for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as a Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry. She was their first twin-screw vessel. She was launched in 1893.
She was acquired by the Midland Railway in 1912 and by the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and scrapped in 1930.[2]
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) - ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets-Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 118. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
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