SS Ralph Creyke (1878)

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History
Name: SS Ralph Creke
Operator: Goole Steam Shipping Company
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Hardcastle and Watson, Pallion, Sunderland
Launched: 22 March 1878
Sponsored by: Miss Creyke
Fate: Foundered 20 February 1879
General characteristics
Tonnage: 553 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 165 feet (50 m)
Beam: 30 feet (9.1 m)
Draught: 12.6 feet (3.8 m)
Depth: 13.6 feet (4.1 m)

SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1878.[1]

History

The ship was built by Hardcastle and Watson, Pallion, Sunderland for the Goole Steam Shipping Company and launched on 21 March 1878 by Miss Creyke.[2] The engines were fitted by Patterson and Atkinson, St. Lawrence Engine Works, Newcastle.

On 20 February 1879, Ralph Creyke foundered in a storm in the Celtic Sea 16 miles southwest of Lundy Island during a voyage from Cardiff, Wales, to Dieppe, France.[3] Her name was used for a replacement vessel, Ralph Creyke, which was delivered later that year,

References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  2. ↑ "Ship launch at Pallion". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. England. 22 March 1878. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ "The wreck of the Steamer Ralph Creyke". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. England. 5 March 1879. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
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