SS Ralph Creyke (1879)
| History | |
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| Name: | SS Ralph Creke |
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| Port of registry: |
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| Builder: | Short Brothers, Sunderland |
| Yard number: | 101 |
| Launched: | July 1879 |
| Out of service: | 16 October 1912 |
| Fate: | Sank |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 633 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 176.4 feet (53.8 m) |
| Beam: | 30 feet (9.1 m) |
| Depth: | 13.4 feet (4.1 m) |
SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1879.[1]
History
She replaced a vessel of the same name Ralph Creyke built in 1878 which had foundered in 1879 off Lundy Island. The replacement ship was built by Short Brothers, Sunderland for the Goole Steam Shipping Company and launched in July 1879.[2]
in 1886 she was in collision with the Richard Moxon which resulted in the Richard Moxon being towed into Yarmouth Roads.[3]
In 1905 she was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In December 1902 a fire broke out in the hold as she was coming up the River Humber. On reaching Hull, Captain Campbell moored up alongside the Albert Dock Promenade and the North-Eastern and Police Fire Brigades arrived and fought the fire for several hours.[4]
She was sold in 1909. Her captain, Edward Atkinson formed the Ouse Steamship Company, and she was the first ship of this new company.
On 28 August 1912 sister ship Derwent she was anchored midstream in Goole waiting to enter the lock, when a strong southerly wind caused Derwent to sheer into Ralph Creyke which was outbound with a full cargo of coal. The Derwent’s anchor chain became caught in the Ralph Creyke’s propeller and her engines were stopped. The accident required the Ralph Creyke to be dry-docked to remove the chain.[5]
After these expensive repairs, only 2 months later, on 16 October 1912 she sank near Flushing after a collision with the Danish steamer Viking.[6]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
- ↑ "Launch of another Goole steamer". Shields Daily Gazette (England). 25 July 1879. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Two steamers in collision". Shields Daily Gazette (England). 30 November 1886. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Goole Steamer on Fire". Leeds Mercury (England). 24 December 1902. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Remarkable Shipping Accident". Gloucestershire Citizen (England). 30 August 1912. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Goole Steamer Beached. Total Loss of the Ralph Creyke". Hull Daily Mail (England). 18 October 1912. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).