PS Richard Young (1871)

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History
Name
  • 1871-1890:PS Richard Young
  • 1890-1905:SS Brandon
OperatorGreat Eastern Railway
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderJ & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London
Launched1871
Out of service1905
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage
Length
  • 1871-1890:239.8 feet (73.1 m)
  • 1890-1905:245 feet (75 m)
Beam27 feet (8.2 m)
Depth13.5 feet (4.1 m)

PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1871.[1]

History[]

The ship was built by J & W Dudgeon in Cubitt Town London for the Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871.[2]

She was used for the Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services.[3]

In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon.

She was scrapped in 1905.

References[]

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "Harwich. Continental Steamers". The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 11 November 1871. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
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