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PS Lymington (1893)

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History
NamePS Lymington
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderDay, Summers and Company, Southampton
Cost£6,000
Launched6 April 1893
General characteristics
Tonnage130 gross register tons (GRT)
Length120.2 feet (36.6 m)
Beam18.1 feet (5.5 m)
Draught7.7 feet (2.3 m)

PS Lymington was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1893.[1]

History

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She was built by Day, Summers and Company in Southampton and launched on 6 April 1893.

She cost £6,000 (equivalent to £840,000 in 2023)[2] and was 120 feet (37 m) long.[3] and was used for the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry service.

She was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1923.

She was disposed of is 1929 and converted into a houseboat at Yarmouth and renamed Glengarry. Later she was used as the Norwich Sea Cadets’ training vessel Lord Nelson.

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. ^ 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 7 May 2024.
  3. ^ R A Williams, The London and South Western Railway, Volume 2: Growth and Consolidation, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973, ISBN 0 7153 5940 1