SS Macclesfield (1914)

History
Name| SS Macclesfield
Operator|

* 1914–1923: Great Central Railway
* 1923–1935: London and North Eastern Railway
* 1935–1948: Associated Humber Lines
* 1948–1958: British Railways

Port of registry|
Builder| Swan Hunter
Yard number| 936
Launched| 22 May 1914
Out of service| 1958
Fate| Scrapped 1958
General characteristics
Tonnage| 1,018 gross register tons (GRT)
Length| 250 feet (76 m)
Beam| 34.2 feet (10.4 m)
Depth| 16 feet (4.9 m)

SS Macclesfield was a cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1914.[1]

## History

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The ship was built by Swan Hunter and launched on 22 May 1914 by Miss Fay, daughter of Sir Sam Fay, general manager of the Great Central Railway.[2] She was the second of an order of two ships from Swan Hunter, the other being Chesterfield. She was deployed on the Grimsby to Rotterdam service.[3]

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and in 1935 to Associated Humber Lines. In 1948 she was in the ownership of British Railways and scrapped in 1958 in Utrecht.[4]

## 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. ^ "Launch of the S.S. Macclesfield". Newcastle Journal. England. 25 May 1914. Retrieved 10 November 2015 - via British Newspaper Archive.
3. ^ "Trial Trip of the Macclesfield". Newcastle Journal. England. 23 June 1914. Retrieved 10 November 2015 - via British Newspaper Archive.
4. ^ "Macclesfield". Tyne Built Ships. Retrieved 10 November 2015.

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Ships operated by the London and North Eastern Railway

Ex GCR ships|

* Accrington
* City of Bradford
* City of Leeds
* Dewsbury
* Lutterworth
* Macclesfield
* Nottingham
* Staveley

Ex GER ships|

* Amsterdam
* Antwerp
* Archangel
* Bruges
* Cromer
* Felixstowe
* Malines
* Roulers
* St Denis

Ships built for, or
acquired by, the LNER|

* Amsterdam
* Arnhem
* Brightlingsea
* Prague
* Suffolk Ferry
* Train Ferry No. 1 (renamed Essex Ferry in 1946)
* Train Ferry No. 2
* Train Ferry No. 3
* Vienna

Humber Ferries|

* Grimsby
* Cleethorpes
* Brocklesby
* Killingholme
* Tattershall Castle
* Wingfield Castle
* Lincoln Castle

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