PS Wingfield Castle
 The PSS Wingfield Castle located Hartlepool's Maritime Experience in Hartlepool, UK | |
| History | |
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | PSS Wingfield Castle |
| Namesake: | Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, UK |
| Owner: | LNER |
| Route: | Humber Ferry crossing |
| Ordered: | 1934 |
| Builder: | William Gray & Company, Hartlepool, UK |
| Laid down: | 27 June 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1934 |
| Decommissioned: | 1974 |
| Status: | Preserved as a museum ship at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Paddlesteamer |
| Tonnage: | 550 GT |
| Length: | 209 ft (64 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft (17 m) (including paddle box) |
| Propulsion: | Triple expansion, diagonal stroke, reciprocating steam engine |
| Speed: | 12.0 knots (22.2 km/h; 13.8 mph) |
The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.
The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle. A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.
She was earmarked to become a floating restaurant in Swansea Marina in the early 1980s but was too wide to fit through the lock gates. She is now preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool as a floating exhibit at Jackson Dock, as part of the visitor attraction known as "Hartlepool's Maritime Experience", which also includes HMS Trincomalee.
Pictures
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The "Wingfield Castle" in September 1973 on River Humber
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The "Schornstein" in September 1973
See also
External links
Media related to Wingfield Castle (ship, 1934) at Wikimedia Commons- Wingfield Castle website
- National Historic Ships
Coordinates: 54°41′23″N 1°12′21″W / 54.68972°N 1.20583°W
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