PS ''Adelaide'' was a passenger paddle steamer built for the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

(GER) in 1880.

History

The Barrow Shipbuilding Company built ''Adelaide'' for the

. She was launched on 8 May 1880. She was launched by Mrs. Adelaide Simpson, the wife of Mr. Lightly Simpson, a director of the GER Company. She was the GER's first steel-hulled ship, and its last paddle steamer. She was intended for the Harwich – Rotterdam service. In 1885 the GER launched its twice-weekly morning service to mainland Europe. A train was scheduled to leave

London Liverpool Street Station Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a London station group, central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the Wards of the City of ...

at 9.00am to Harwich, where it connected with the paddle steamer ''Adelaide'' which left at 11.00am to arrive in Antwerp the same evening. There was a corresponding return service from Antwerp on Tuesdays and Fridays, reaching London the same night. The company also offered a daily weekday service which left Liverpool Street at 8.00pm every evening, with a connecting boat service overnight to Antwerp and Rotterdam, with arrivals early the following morning. In 1896 ''Adelaide'' was withdrawn from service. In 1897 Thos. W. Ward

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her at

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, Lancashire.

References

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