PS Briton

History
United Kingdom
Name: PS Briton
Owner:
  • 1862: Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Co.
  • 1863: Bristol General Steam Nav Co.
  • 1877: Bristol Steam Nav Co Ltd
  • 1890: Waterford Steamship Company
Route:
Builder: Tod & McGregor, Glasgow
Yard number: 121
Launched: June 1862
Completed: July 1862
In service: 1862
Fate: Scrapped - 1892 at Bristol
General characteristics
Class and type: Iron Paddle Steamer
Tonnage: 349 GRT (1876: 486 GRT)
Length: 176ft (1876: 207ft)
Beam: 25ft
Installed power: steam 2cy 100nhp

PS Briton was a paddle steamer that inaugurated the Stranraer to Larne service.

Service

PS Briton inaugurated the Stranraer to Larne crossing, but the service was not a success and was withdrawn after 18 months, in 1863.[1] Following this, she operated from Bristol to the South of Ireland, to Waterford between 1864–1866 and to Wexford between 1867 and 1890.[2] Her final year was spent under the ownership of the Waterford Steamship Company.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "History". Port of Larne. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "Briton". Tod & Macgregor Shiplist. Retrieved 24 January 2011.


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