PS Queen of the Bay (1867)
| History | |
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| Name | 1867-1894: P.S. Queen of the Bay |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
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| Builder | Henderson, Coulborn and Company |
| Yard number | 91 |
| Launched | 1867 |
| Out of service | 22 May 1894 |
| Fate | Damaged by fire whilst on the River Usk and sold for scrapping |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 138 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 131.5 ft (40.1 m) |
| Beam | 18.1 ft (5.5 m) |
| Capacity | 197 passengers |
PS Queen of the Bay was a passenger vessel operated by the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company from 1873 to 1885[1]
History[edit]
She was built by Henderson, Coulborn and Company in Renfrew and launched in 1867. She operated for the Blackpool, Lytham and Southport Steam Packet Company out of Morecambe for five years and then Blackpool for two years. She was sold to the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company in 1873 for £4,600[2] (equivalent to £433,627 in 2021).[3]
In 1885 she was sold for £2,250[4] (equivalent to £258,559 in 2021)[3] to the Bristol Channel and was operated by the Newport and Bristol Channel Excursion Company for four year. After a sale in 1889 to another Cardiff owner, she caught fire on the River Usk on 22 May 1894 and was sold for scrap.
References[edit]
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "West Cornwall Steamship Company". West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Cornwall. 27 March 1873. Retrieved 10 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ "Cornwall". Royal Cornwall Gazette. Cornwall. 27 November 1885. Retrieved 10 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.