PS ''Suffolk'' 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 1895.

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the

and launched on 25 April 1900. She was launched by Miss Nellie Howard, daughter of Captain D. Howard, the Marine Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead. Unusually she was launched with machinery on board complete, and with steam up, and she made a short run on the Humber estuary, prior to being berthed in the Victoria Dock She was used on local services and coastal excursions. In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

and they scrapped her in 1931.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suffolk 1895 ships Steamships of the United Kingdom Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom Ships built on the Humber Ships of the Great Eastern Railway Ships of the London and North Eastern Railway