PS Suffolk (1895)

PS Suffolk arriving in Ipswich, May 1904

History
Name| PS Suffolk
Operator|

* 1895–1923: Great Eastern Railway
* 1923–1931: London and North Eastern Railway

Port of registry|
Builder| Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched| 13 May 1895
Out of service| 1931
Fate| Scrapped 1931
General characteristics
Tonnage| 245 gross register tons (GRT)
Length| 165 feet (50 m)
Beam| 21 feet (6.4 m)
Depth| 7.3 feet (2.2 m)

PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1895.[1]

## History

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The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900.[2] She was launched by Miss Nellie Howard, daughter of Captain D. Howard, the Marine Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead. Unusually she was launched with machinery on board complete, and with steam up, and she made a short run on the Humber estuary, prior to being berthed in the Victoria Dock

She was used on local services and coastal excursions.[3]

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and they scrapped her in 1931.

## References

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1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. ^ "Addition to the Company's Fleet. Launched with steam up". Hull Daily Mail. Scotland. 13 May 1895. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. ^ 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.

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