PS Grimsby (1888)

PS Grimsby was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1888.[1]

History
Name:	PS Grimsby
Operator:	1888-1897:Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 1897-1923:Great Central Railway 1923-1923:London and North Eastern Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched:	8 December 1888
Out of service:	1923
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	351 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	180 feet (55 m)
Beam:	25.4 feet (7.7 m)
Depth:	7.4 feet (2.3 m)

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 8 December 1888[2] by Miss J.M.C. Cook. She was used on the New Holland to Hull ferry service.

In 1923 she transferred to the London and North Eastern Railway. She was scrapped in 1923. [3]

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Hull – Launch of a new ferry steamer". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 10 December 1888. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "A New Holland Explosion". Hull Daily Mail. England. 19 July 1923. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.