PS Princess of Wales (1878)

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named PS Princess of Wales.

History
NamePS Princess of Wales
OperatorGreat Eastern Railway
BuilderLondon and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard number203
Launched4 February 1878
Out of service1896
FateScrapped 1896
General characteristics
Tonnage1,098 gross register tons (GRT)
Length265.5 feet (80.9 m)
Beam30.4 feet (9.3 m)

PS Princess of Wales was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1878.[1]

History

The ship was built by the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 4 February 1878.[2] She was launched by Miss Isabel Adams, daughter of the Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and named after the Princess of Wales, Alexandra of Denmark.

She was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp route.[3]

She was broken up in 1896.

References

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "The G.E.R. Continental Service". Bury and Norwich Post. England. 12 February 1878. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.