PS Richard Young (1871)
PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1871.[1]
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Operator: | Great Eastern Railway |
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Builder: | J & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London |
Launched: | 1871 |
Out of service: | 1905 |
Fate: | Scrapped |
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Beam: | 27 feet (8.2 m) |
Depth: | 13.5 feet (4.1 m) |
History
The ship was built by J & W Dudgeon in Cubitt Town London for the Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871.[2]
She was used for the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services.[3]
In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon.
She was scrapped in 1905.
References
- Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- "Harwich. Continental Steamers". The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 11 November 1871. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0 946378 22 3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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