Yard number 583 Fate Scrapped Length 40 m Builder Cammell Laird | Out of service 1976 Launched 1891 Draft 3.81 m | |
Name 1891-1930 TSS Sir Richard Grenville
1930-1931 TSS Penlee
1932-1976 TSS Lady Savile Operator 1891-1931 Great Western Railway
1931-1947 Dover Harbour Board
1947-1976 Essex Yacht Club Tonnage 420 gross register tons (GRT) | ||
TSS Sir Richard Grenville was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1891.
History
TSS Sir Richard Grenville was built by Cammell Laird and launched in 1891. She left the Mersey on 30 April 1891. She was intended as a tender to meet the large mail steamers frequenting Plymouth, and also as an excursion steamer along the coast.
She was advertised for sale in 1921 but was eventually returned to service until sold in 1931, renamed Penlee to make way for a replacement Sir Richard Grenville then moved on to the Dover Harbour Board where she was renamed a second time to Lady Savile.
She was purchased by the Essex Yacht Club in 1947 as their Clubship and moved to Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. She was replaced in 1976 by the Trinity House Pilot cutter Bembridge and was broken up at Queenborough, Sheppey.