PS Richard Young (1871)

PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1871.[1]

History
Name:
  • 1871-1890:PS Richard Young
  • 1890-1905:SS Brandon
Operator: Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry:
Builder: J & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London
Launched: 1871
Out of service: 1905
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:
Length:
  • 1871-1890:239.8 feet (73.1 m)
  • 1890-1905:245 feet (75 m)
Beam: 27 feet (8.2 m)
Depth: 13.5 feet (4.1 m)

History

The ship was built by J & W Dudgeon in Cubitt Town London for the Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871.[2]

She was used for the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services.[3]

In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon.

She was scrapped in 1905.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Harwich. Continental Steamers". The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 11 November 1871. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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