History
Name
  • 1880-1897:PS Lady Tyler
  • 1897-????:PS Artemis
Operator
  • 1880-1893:Great Eastern Railway
  • 1893-????:Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Hull
  • ????:George Sandford, Kent
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderT and W Smith, North Shields
Yard number69
Launched12 January 1880
Completed20 May 1880
Out of service1955
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage995 gross register tons (GRT)
Length261 feet (80 m)
Beam30.2 feet (9.2 m)
Draught13.8 feet (4.2 m)

PS Lady Tyler was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1880.[1]

History

The ship was built by T and W Smith in North Shields for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 12 January 1880.[2] She was launched by Miss Luckley, daughter of G. Luckley, a member of the firm of T and W Smith, and named after Lady Tyler, the wife of Sir Henry Tyler, chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, and the conservative candidate for Harwich.

On 6 May 1880, she ran aground on the Black Middens, off the mouth of the River Tyne.[3] She was refloated the next day.[4] Lady Tyler was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam route.[5]

In 1893 she was disposed of by the railway company and sold to Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Hull. She was then used for transporting coal.[6]

On 25 May 1895 she launched a new steamship service between Liverpool and Douglas by the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers Limited.[7] The new service had an inauspicious start however, when Lady Tyler collided with the Isle of Man Steam Packet company ship Mona's Isle on 4 June 1895 when arriving into Liverpool after an overnight sailing from Douglas.[8] After a week of repairs she returned to service but on Saturday 15 June 1895 she collided with Victoria Pier, and sustained damage. She ceased running for the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers on 22 July 1895, and the company was wound up later that year.

In 1897 she was renamed Artemis.[9]

She was sold by 1905 to George Sandford, and used as a coal hulk in Gravesend until around 1955.

References

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "Launch of a new steamer for the Great Eastern Railway Co". Framlingham Weekly News. England. 17 January 1880. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Shipping". Northern Echo. No. 3206. Darlington. 7 May 1880.
  4. ^ "Shipping". Liverpool Mercury. No. 10085. Liverpool. 8 May 1880.
  5. ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
  6. ^ "The Lady Tyler". Hull Daily Mail. England. 28 September 1894. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Mutual Line of Manx Steamers". Isles of Man Times. Isle of Man. 28 May 1895. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Two Isle of Man Steamers in Collision". Isles of Man Times. Isle of Man. 4 June 1895. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "The Lady Tyler, of Hull, is to be re-named Artemis". Hull Daily Mail. England. 2 June 1897. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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