SS Dresden (1884)

SS Dresden was a freight vessel built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1877.[1]

History
Name: SS Dresden
Operator:
  • 1884-1895:Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company
  • 1895-1904:Goole Steam Shipping Company
  • 1904-1916:West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company
  • 1916-1925:Mann Macneal and Company Limited, Glasgow
Port of registry:
Builder: William Thompson, Dundee
Yard number: 59
Launched: 5 June 1884
Out of service: 1925
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 822 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 230 feet (70 m)
Beam: 32 feet (9.8 m)
Depth: 13.6 feet (4.1 m)
Installed power: 160 hp
Speed: 13 knots

History

The ship was built by William Thompson of Dundee for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company and launched on 13 February 1877.[2] She was launched by Miss Meek, eldest daughter of Alexander Meek of Glenville, Brough,

In 1895 she was acquired by the Goole Steam Shipping Company. In 1904 she was acquired by the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company. In 1916 she was sold to Mann Macneal and Company Limited, Glasgow who kept her until 1925 when she was scrapped.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Launch of a Goole Steamer". York Herald. England. 7 June 1884. Retrieved 28 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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