PS ''Lady Tyler'' was a passenger vessel 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 ...

in 1880.

History

The ship was built by T and W Smith in North Shields for the

and launched on 12 January 1880. She was launched by Miss Luckley, daughter of G. Luckley, a member of the firm of T and W Smith, and named after Lady Tyler, the wife of Sir Henry Tyler, chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, and the conservative candidate for Harwich. On 6 May 1880, she ran aground on the Black Middens, off the mouth of the

River Tyne The River Tyne is a river in North East England. Its length (excluding tributaries) is . It is formed by the North Tyne and the South Tyne, which converge at Warden Rock near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Wate ...

. She was refloated the next day. ''Lady Tyler'' was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam route. In 1893 she was disposed of by the railway company and sold to Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Hull. She was then used for transporting coal. On 25 May 1895 she launched a new steamship service between Liverpool and Douglas by the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers Limited. The new service had an inauspicious start however, when Lady Tyler collided with the

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company ship on 4 June 1895 when arriving into Liverpool after an overnight sailing from Douglas. After a week of repairs she returned to service but on Saturday 15 June 1895 she collided with Victoria Pier, and sustained damage. She ceased running for the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers on 22 July 1895, and the company was wound up later that year. In 1897 she was renamed ''Artemis''. She was sold by 1905 to George Sandford, and used as a coal hulk in Gravesend until around 1955.

References

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