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PS Lune (1892)

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Out of service
  
1923

Length
  
39 m

Launched
  
1892

Name
  
1892–1913 PS Lune 1913–1923 PS Melcombe Regis

Owner
  
1892–1913 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1913–1923 Cosens & Co Ltd, Weymouth

Operator
  
1892–1913 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1913–1923 Cosens & Co Ltd, Weymouth

Route
  
1892–1913 Fleetwood – Heysham and Blackpool

Builder
  
T.B. Seath & Co of Rutherglen

PS Lune was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1892 to 1913.

History

She was built by T.B. Seath & Co of Rutherglen for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1892. She operated a passenger service from Fleetwood to Heysham and Blackpool.

In June 1913 she was sold to Cosens & Co Ltd in Weymouth and operated as PS Melcombe Regis.

Vessel entered service in 1913 on Cosen's Admiralty contract as a tender between Portland and Navy vessels at anchorage outside the harbour. In 1918 the vessel transferred to inshore minesweeping service in and around Belfast Lough and was based at Larne. In November of that year she was released back to her owners and in 1919 was laid up at Weymouth still in her wartime grey.

She was scrapped in 1923/4 at Felixstowe.

References

PS Lune (1892) Wikipedia