SS Chester (1884)
| History | |
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| Name: | SS Chester |
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| Builder: | Edward Withy and Company, Hartlepool |
| Launched: | 29 April 1884 |
| Out of service: | September 1910 |
| Fate: | Sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 1,010 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 238.6 feet (72.7 m) |
| Beam: | 32.2 feet (9.8 m) |
| Depth: | 14.1 feet (4.3 m) |
SS Chester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1884.[1]
History
The ship was built by Edward Withy and Company in their Middleton Yard at Hartlepool and launched on 29 April 1884 by Miss Florence Withy.[2] She was designed for the passenger and cargo service between Grimsby and Hamburg. She had a long poop, long bridge-house, and a long topgallant forecastle. The bridge-house was fitted up for the accommodation of thirty first-class passengers (including ladies’ cabin), captain &c. There was accommodation in the forecastle for second-class passengers, and in the poop aft for officers and crew. In the ‘tween decks were fittings for 100 emigrants.
On 4 December 1885 she was involved in a collision with her sister ship Wakefield which resulted in the sinking of the Wakefield and the drowning of the stewardess.[3]
In 1897 she passed to the Great Central Railway. On 28 September 1910 she was in a collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer which resulted in her being badly damaged. She was beached to prevent sinking.[4] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.[5]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ↑ "Launch of a Steamer at West Hartlepool". Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough (England). 30 April 1884. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Steamer Sunk". Aberdeen Evening Express (Scotland). 4 December 1885. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "The Great Central Railway Company’s steamer Chester…". Aberdeen Journal (Scotland). 30 September 1910. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Grimsby Steamer wrecked in the Elbe". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (England). 3 October 1910. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).