SS Blackburn (1910)

SS Blackburn was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1910.[1]

History
Name: SS Blackburn
Operator: Great Central Railway
Port of registry:
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched: 8 September 1910
Out of service: 8 December 1910
Fate: Wrecked
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,634 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 265 feet (81 m)
Beam: 36 feet (11 m)
Depth: 17.4 feet (5.3 m)

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 8 September 1910 by Miss Joyce Evelyn Barwick of Grimsby.[2] She was one of an order for four ships, the others being Dewsbury, Accrington and Bury. She was built with accommodation for 100 first-class, 10 second-class and 300 third-class passengers.

She had a very short career with the Great Central Railway as on 8 December 1910 she was in collision with the London steamer Rook off Sheringham, Norfolk. Twenty-eight crew and twenty-nine passengers escaped in three lifeboats.[3] The wreck was located five days later and found to be lying in three fathoms of water. It was marked with a buoy.[4]

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "The Blackburn launched. Ceremony at Earle's". Hull Daily Mail. England. 8 September 1910. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "Loss of a Railway Steamer". Gloucestershire Echo. England. 9 December 1910. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "The Submerged Blackburn". London Daily News. England. 13 December 1910. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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