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TSS Colleen Bawn (1903)

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History
NameColleen Bawn
Owner
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
Route
BuilderVickers Limited
Launched1903
Out of service1931
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage1,204 gross register tons (GRT)
Length260 ft (79 m)
Beam35.7 ft (10.9 m)
Draught15 ft (4.6 m)

TSS Colleen Bawn was a twin screw passenger steamship operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1903 to 1928.[1]

History

She was built by Vickers Limited of Barrow-in-Furness for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1903 and launched on 12 June 1903[2] by Mrs. Aspinall, wife of John Aspinall, one of the directors of the railway company.

With her sister ship TSS Mellifont she provided a passenger and freight service between Drogheda and Liverpool as a replacement for the paddle steamers Tredagh and Kathleen Mavourneen.

In 1928 she moved to the Holyhead to Greenore route.

She was scrapped in 1931.

References

  1. ^ Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
  2. ^ Manchester Evening News - Friday 12 June 1903