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SS Ouse (1884)

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Yard number
  
5

Fate
  
Wrecked

Length
  
67 m

Out of service
  
13 September 1947

Launched
  
10 July 1884

Draft
  
4.21 m

Name
  
1884-1910SS Ouse1910-1929SS Goole Trader1929-1947SS Tervsund

Operator
  
1887-1905Goole Steam Shipping Company1905-1910Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway1910-1927Angfartygs Aktiebolag Transito (H Wilen), Abo1927-1929Th Kramer, Abo1929-1947Pargas Kalkbergs Aktiebolag, Pargas

Builder
  
William Dobson and Co, Walker Yard

SS Ouse was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1884.

History

The ship was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard as one of a trio of ships including Aire and Calder for the Goole Steam Shipping Company and launched on 10 July 1884. She was described in the Shields Daily Gazette of 12 July 1884 as

constructed with a topgallant forecastle fitted for the crew, long bridge house extending over the engine and boiler room, and poop which will be handsomely fitted up for the comfortable accommodation of first-class passengers. The machinery [was to be] supplied by R and W Hawthorn, and will develop 600 hp, being greatly in excess of that usually fitted. All modern appliances have been provided for the rapid dispatch in loading and unloading cargo, special winches having been prepared to the company’s own design, as also has the steering gear.

In 1905 she was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1910 she was sold to Angfartygs Aktiebolag Transito (H Wilen), Abo and renamed Goole Trader. In 1927 she was purchased by Th Kramer, Abo, and two years later in 1929 by Pargas Kalkbergs Aktiebolag, Paragas. She was renamed Tervsund.

She was wrecked on 13 September 1947 near Varberg on a voyage from Landskrona to Middlesbrough.

References

SS Ouse (1884) Wikipedia


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