Ordered 1934 Decommissioned 1974 Length 64 m Commissioned 24 September 1934 | Laid down 27 June 1934 Construction started 27 June 1934 | |
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Namesake Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, UK Owner London and North Eastern Railway Similar HMS Trincomalee, Hartlepool's Maritime Experience, Summerhill Country Park, Teesmouth National Nature R, Roann | ||
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The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.
The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle. A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.
She was earmarked to become a floating restaurant in Swansea Marina in the early 1980s but was too wide to fit through the lock gates. She is now preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool as a floating exhibit at Jackson Dock, as part of the visitor attraction known as "Hartlepool's Maritime Experience", which also includes HMS Trincomalee.
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