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PS Claud Hamilton (1875)

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History
NamePS Claud Hamilton
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderJohn Elder and Company, Fairfield, Govan
Yard number187
Launched3 June 1875
Out of service26 August 1914
FateScrapped 1914
General characteristics
Tonnage962 gross register tons (GRT)
Length251.6 feet (76.7 m)
Beam30.2 feet (9.2 m)

PS Claud Hamilton was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1875.[1]

History

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The ship was built by John Elder and Company of Govan for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 3 June 1875.[2] She was named after the chairman of the Great Eastern Railway, Lord Claude Hamilton. She was despatched from the shipyard on 13 August 1875 and arrived in Harwich on 15 August, after a voyage around the north coast of Scotland via Pentland Firth. Her first captain was William Rivers.[3]

In 1897 she was sold to the Corporation of London and used for transporting cattle. She was sent for scrapping in 1914.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "The continental traffic". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 11 June 1875. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Harwich. Arrival of the Claud Hamilton". Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 20 August 1875. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ 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.