PS ''Orwell'' was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1873. The vessel was a

paddle steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses we ...

History

The ship was built by Lewis and Stockwell in London in 1873. She was placed in excursion service on the

River Orwell The River Orwell flows through the county of Suffolk in England from Ipswich to Felixstowe. Above Ipswich, the river is known as the River Gipping, but its name changes to the Orwell at Stoke Bridge, where the river becomes tidal. It broadens in ...

, between

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...

and Harwich. On 27 May 1890 she collided with the on the River Orwell at Cage Bend. The force of the impact was so great that the bow of the ''Orwell'' stoved in, leaving a large hole which resulted in water pouring into the vessel. One of the paddle boxes was carried away. Captain Coe ran the ''Orwell'' ashore, and the passengers were transferred to the ''Stour''. Probably as a result of the damage sustained, she was sold for scrapping later that year.

References

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