Name PS Vulture Out of service 1905 Launched 18 August 1864 Draft 3.23 m | Yard number 6 Fate Scrapped Length 74 m | |
Operator 1865 Samuel Otis Johnson, Nassau
1868 Thomas Brown
1870-1873 Ford and Jackson
1873-1886 Great Western Railway Builder Aitken and Mansel Whiteinch | ||
PS Vulture was a passenger vessel built in 1864.
History
PS Vulture was built by Aitken and Mansel Whiteinch and launched on 18 August 1864
She departed Glasgow for Bermuda in October 1864. and served as a blockage runner in the American Civil War.
In 1865 she was advertised for sale. and by 1868 was operated by Thomas Brown between Glasgow and London. In 1870 she was acquired by Ford and Jackson who employed her on services between Milford Haven and Waterford. In 1873 this was taken over by the Great Western Railway.
She was broken up in 1886.
References
PS Vulture (1864) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA