TSS Sir Richard Grenville (1891)

TSS Sir Richard Grenville was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1891.[1]

History
Name:
  • 1891-1930: TSS Sir Richard Grenville
  • 1930-1931: TSS Penlee
  • 1932-1976: TSS Lady Savile
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number: 583
Launched: 1891
Out of service: 1976
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 420 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 132 feet (40 m)
Beam: 30.1 feet (9.2 m)
Draught: 12.5 feet (3.8 m)
Speed: 12.5 knots

History

TSS Sir Richard Grenville was built by Cammell Laird and launched in 1891. She left the Mersey on 30 April 1891.[2] She was intended as a tender to meet the large mail steamers frequenting Plymouth, and also as an excursion steamer along the coast.

She was advertised for sale in 1921 but was eventually returned to service until sold in 1931, renamed Penlee to make way for a replacement Sir Richard Grenville then moved on to the Dover Harbour Board where she was renamed a second time to Lady Savile.[3]

She was purchased by the Essex Yacht Club in 1947 as their Clubship and moved to Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. She was replaced in 1976 by the Trinity House Pilot cutter Bembridge and was broken up at Queenborough, Sheppey.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "New Steamer for the Great Western Railway". Liverpool Mercury. Liverpool. 1 May 1891. Retrieved 17 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Kittridge, Alan (1993). Plymouth – Ocean Liner Port of Call. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-30-4.
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