TSS Mellifont (1903)

History

Name:	Mellifont
Owner:	1903–23: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1923–33:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Operator:	1903–23: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1923–33:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Port of registry:
Route:	1903–06: Drogheda – Liverpool 1906–12: Goole 1912–28: Drogheda – Liverpool 1928–33: Holyhead – Greenore
Builder:	Vickers Limited
Launched:	1903
Out of service:	1933
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics

TSS Mellifont was a twin screw passenger steamship operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1903 to 1928.^[1]

History

She was built by Vickers Limited of Barrow-in-Furness for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1903. With her sister ship TSS Colleen Bawn she operated a passenger and freight service between Drogheda and Liverpool as a replacement for the paddle steamers Tredagh and Kathleen Mavourneen.

She operated from Goole on continental services from 1906 to 1912.

In 1928 she moved to the Holyhead to Greenore route.

She was scrapped in 1933.

Ships operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
LYR operated ships	Aire Alt Berlin Calder Colne Cuxhaven Dearne Derwent Don Douglas Equity Hebble Hodder Humber Irwell Liberty Mersey Nidd Ouse Ouse Ralph Creyke Rawcliffe Rosa Rother River Crake River Ribble Rye Spen Unity Wenning West Riding Wharfe
Jointly operated with the London and North Western Railway	Colleen Bawn Duke of Albany Duke of Argyll Duke of Clarence Duke of Connaught (I) Duke of Connaught (II) Duke of Cornwall Duke of Cumberland Duke of Lancaster Duke of York Earl of Ulster Ivernagh Kathleen Mavourneen Lune Mellifont Norah Creina Prince Arthur Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Royal Consort Thomas Dugdale Tredagh

LNWR operated ships

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