SS Staveley (1891)

SS Staveley was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891.[1]

The Staveley, by A. J. Jansen
History
Name: SS Staveley
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: Swan Hunter
Yard number: 166
Launched: 1 May 1891
Out of service: 1933
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,033 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 240.2 feet (73.2 m)
Beam: 32 feet (9.8 m)
Depth: 15.2 feet (4.6 m)

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend and launched on 1 May 1891. She was placed on the Grimsby to Hamburg route with her sister ships SS Lutterworth and SS Nottingham. In 1893 she made a record breaking trip between Grimsby and Hamburg in 25 hours 55 minutes.[2]

In 1897 she was acquired by the Great Central Railway. On 10 July 1914 she was involved in a collision in fog with an unknown vessel about 60 miles off Spurn Head. When she arrived in Grimsby, a large rent extended almost to the water line.[3]

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway who kept her in service until 1932 when she was sold to the British and Irish Steam Packet Company who scrapped her in 1933.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "From Grimsby to Hamburg". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. England. 8 June 1893. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "G.C. Steamer Badly Damaged". Sheffield Evening Telegraph. England. 11 July 1914. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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