Engineering:PS Earl of Ulster
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PS Earl of Ulster was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1878 to 1894.[1]
History
Earl of Ulster was built by the Barrow Iron Shipbuilding Co., Barrow in Furness, Lancashire for the North Lancashire Steam Navigation Co. She was launched on 24 November 1877.[2] She operated on services from Fleetwood to Belfast.
On 30 June 1883, she was involved in a collision off the Isle of Man with the schooner Susanna.[3]
On 12 March 1889, she collided with the Holywood Lighthouse in Belfast Lough and destroyed it.[4]
After being sold to A M Carlisle in 1894, Earl of Ulster passed into the ownership of J McCausland of Portaferry and was briefly put into service on Strangford Lough running excursion trips for one season before being broken up.[5]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian L. D. (1968). Railway and Other Steamers (2nd ed.). T. Stephenson & Sons. ISBN 978-0-90131412-3.
- ↑ "District News". Preston Chronicle (Preston) (3382). 1 December 1877.
- ↑ Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 August 1883.
- ↑ Belfast News-Letter, Wednesday 13 March 1889.
- ↑ Greenway, Ambrose (2014). Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries: An Illustrated History. Seaforth Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-84832170-0.
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