PS Lady Tyler
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Operator |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | T and W Smith, North Shields |
Yard number | 69 |
Launched | 12 January 1880 |
Completed | 20 May 1880 |
Out of service | 1955 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 995 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 261 feet (80 m) |
Beam | 30.2 feet (9.2 m) |
Draught | 13.8 feet (4.2 m) |
PS Lady Tyler was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1880.[1]
History
The ship was built by T and W Smith in North Shields for the
On 6 May 1880, she ran aground on the Black Middens, off the mouth of the River Tyne.[3] She was refloated the next day.[4] Lady Tyler was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam route.[5]
In 1893 she was disposed of by the railway company and sold to Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Hull. She was then used for transporting coal.[6]
On 25 May 1895 she launched a new steamship service between Liverpool and Douglas by the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers Limited.
In 1897 she was renamed Artemis.[9]
She was sold by 1905 to George Sandford, and used as a coal hulk in Gravesend until around 1955.
References
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "Launch of a new steamer for the Great Eastern Railway Co". Framlingham Weekly News. England. 17 January 1880. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Shipping". Northern Echo. No. 3206. Darlington. 7 May 1880.
- ^ "Shipping". Liverpool Mercury. No. 10085. Liverpool. 8 May 1880.
- ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
- ^ "The Lady Tyler". Hull Daily Mail. England. 28 September 1894. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Mutual Line of Manx Steamers". Isles of Man Times. Isle of Man. 28 May 1895. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Two Isle of Man Steamers in Collision". Isles of Man Times. Isle of Man. 4 June 1895. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Lady Tyler, of Hull, is to be re-named Artemis". Hull Daily Mail. England. 2 June 1897. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.