Name PS Suffolk Fate Scrapped Length 50 m | Out of service 1931 Launched 13 May 1895 | |
Operator 1895-1923Great Eastern Railway1923-1931London and North Eastern Railway Tonnage 245 gross register tons (GRT) | ||
PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1900.
History
The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900. She was launched by Miss Nellie Howard, daughter of Captain D. Howard, the Marine Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead. Unusually she was launched with machinery on board complete, and with steam up, and she made a short run on the River Humber, prior to being berthed in the Victoria Dock
She was used on local services and coastal excursions.
In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and they scrapped her in 1931.