TSS Carlotta (1893)

TSS Carlotta was a passenger vessel built for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1892.[1]

Carlotta in 1905
History
Name:	1893-1930:TSS Carlotta
Operator:	1892-1912:London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 1912-1923:Midland Railway 1923-1930:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	A.W. Richardson and Company, London
Launched:	1893
Out of service:	1930
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	261 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	124.6 feet (38.0 m)
Beam:	32.4 feet (9.9 m)
Draught:	7.6 feet (2.3 m)

History

TSS Carlotta was built by A.W. Richardson and Company, London for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as a Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry. She was their first twin-screw vessel. She was launched in 1893.

She was acquired by the Midland Railway in 1912 and by the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and scrapped in 1930.[2]

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets-Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 118. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)