PS Thames (1868)

History
Name:	1868-1913: PS Thames
Operator:	1868-1879: London and North Western Railway 1879-1882: Great Western Railway 1882-1912: London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 1912-1913: Midland Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	Bowdler, Chaffer and Company, Liverpool.
Launched:	1868
Out of service:	1913
Fate:	Withdrawn
General characteristics
Tonnage:	125 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	106 feet (32 m)
Beam:	20 feet (6.1 m)
Draught:	8.5 feet (2.6 m)
Propulsion:	Steam engines by Fawcett, Preston and Company

PS Thames was a passenger vessel built for the London and North Western Railway in 1868.^[1]

History

PS Thames was built by Bowdler, Chaffer and Company, Liverpool and launched in 1868. She was used for services on the River Mersey.

In 1879 she was acquired by the Great Western Railway where she was used as a tender at Plymouth.^[2]

In 1882 she was acquired by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. In 1912 she was then owned by the Midland Railway and withdrawn in 1913.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
2. Kittridge, Alan (1993). Plymouth – Ocean Liner Port of Call. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-30-4.