Name PS Princess of Wales Yard number 203 Fate Scrapped Length 81 m | Operator Great Eastern Railway Out of service 1896 Launched 4 February 1878 | |
Builder London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company | ||
PS Princess of Wales was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1878.
History
The ship was built by the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 4 February 1878. She was launched by Miss Isabel Adams, daughter of the Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and named after the Princess of Wales, Alexandra of Denmark.
She was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp route.
She was broken up in 1896.
References
PS Princess of Wales (1878) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA