SS Barnsley (1876)

History
Name:	1876-1889:SS Barnsley 1889-1905:SS Gomes VI 1905-1909:SS Lobito
Operator:	1876-1889:Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 1889-1898:A Gomez, Lisbon 1898-1905:Empreza de Navegação por Vapor para o Algarve e Guadiana, Lisbon 1905-1905:J Soares Franco, Lisbon 1905-1906:João Fonseca e Sá, Lisbon 1905-1909:Empreza Nacional de Navegação, Lisbon
Port of registry:	1876-1889: 1889-1909:
Builder:	John Elder and Company, Govan
Yard number:	200
Launched:	20 May 1876
Out of service:	4 February 1909
Fate:	Sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage:	603 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	185.2 feet (56.4 m)
Beam:	27 feet (8.2 m)

SS Barnsley was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876.^[1]

History

The ship was built by John Elder and Company of Govan and launched on 20 May 1876^[2] By Miss Jamieson. She was intended for the services from Grimsby to Hamburg and Antwerp.

In 1889 she was sold to A Gomez, Lisbon and renamed Gomes VI. She was sold again in 1898 to Empreza de Navegação por Vapor para o Algarve e Guadiana, Lisbon, and then in 1905 through J Soares Franco, João Fonseca e Sá, to Empreza Nacional de Navegação, all in Lisbon. She was renamed Lobito.

She sank on 4 February 1909 at Ilha do Maio, Cape Verde on passage from St Vincent for Cape Verde.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Launches - Govan". Glasgow Herald (Scotland). 22 May 1876. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).