SS ''Great Yarmouth'' was a freight vessel built for the

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in 1866.

History

The ship was built by the Thames Graving Dock Company in

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in 1866. She was placed on the

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cargo service. She was the first screw steamer in the

Company fleet. The hold was built with a double lining, which could hold 100 tons of water, and had a powerful steam pump independent of the main engines connected to clear it. On each side were bunkers capable of storing 100 tons of coal. On 28 December 1868 she came to the rescue of the steamship ''Berussia'' which had broken her main shaft on a voyage from New York to Hamburg. An attempt to tow the ''Berussia'' failed and the ''Great Yarmouth'' took some of the passengers and transferred them to Portland. She was sold to in 1873 to Thomas Gage Beatley and later ended up in the ownership of Mr Joseph Reay of Newcastle. She was stranded at

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in 1887, and a strong sea later destroyed the vessel.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Great Yarmouth 1866 ships Steamships of the United Kingdom Ships built on the River Thames Ships of the Great Eastern Railway