SS Ralph Creyke (1878)

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
Out of service: 20 February 1979
Fate: Wrecked on Lundy Island
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 she foundered 16 miles south west of Lundy Island on a voyage from Cardiff to Dieppe.[3] Her name was kept in a replacement vessel which was delivered later that year, Ralph Creyke.

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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