PS Duchess of Connaught (1884)

History
Name	PS Duchess of Connaught
Operator	London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Port of registry
Builder	Aitken and Mansel, Whiteinch
Yard number	127
Launched	29 April 1884
Out of service	1910
Fate	Scrapped 1910
General characteristics
Tonnage	342 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	190.6 feet (58.1 m)
Beam	26.1 feet (8.0 m)
Depth	8.8 feet (2.7 m)

PS Duchess of Connaught was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1884.[1]

History

The ship was built in steel by Aitken and Mansel and launched on 29 April 1884 by Miss Livingstone of Glasgow.[2] She was constructed for a joint venture between the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway for the passenger trade to the Isle of Wight. The engines were provided by J and J Thomson of Glasgow, with a pair of fixed diagonal surface condensing engines, the cylinders of which were 32 inches (81 cm) and 55 inches (140 cm) in diameter, the stroke being 5 feet (1.5 m). Steam was provided from four steel boilers which could produce 110 lbs per square inch. The design of the vessel was overseen by Mr Stroudley, engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

She undertook her trial on 18 July 1884.[3]

She was scrapped in 1910.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Launches". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 30 April 1884. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "The Ryde and Portsmouth Ferry". Hampshire Telegraph. England. 19 July 1884. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.