Name SS Oldham Depth 14.6 feet (4.5 m) Length 73 m | Beam 30 feet (9.1 m) Launched 1 November 1888 | |
Operator 1888-1897Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway1897-1913Great Central Railway Tonnage 846 gross register tons (GRT) | ||
SS Oldham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1888.
History
The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull and launched on 1 November 1888 by Miss Evelyn Button (aged 6). She was fitted with water ballast in a double bottom on the cellular system, and arranged with poop, bridge, and top-gallant forecastle. Accommodation was provided in the poop for forty first-class passengers, with dining saloon in polished hardwoods. The officers and engineers were berthed under the bridge, and the crew in the forecastle. She was also fitted with portable berths for emigrants. She was schooner rigged, and equipped with three steam winches and two steam cranes for handling cargo.
She was acquired by the Great Central Railway in 1897.
She was sold in 1913 to Greek owners and renamed Eleftheria.