PS Wingfield Castle
The PSS Wingfield Castle located Hartlepool's Maritime Experience in Hartlepool | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | PSS Wingfield Castle |
Namesake | Wingfield Castle |
Owner |
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Route | Humber Ferry crossing |
Ordered | 1934 |
Builder | William Gray & Company, Hartlepool, England[1] |
Laid down | 27 June 1934[3] |
Commissioned | 24 September 1934[1] |
Decommissioned | 1974[1] |
Identification | IMO number: 5392018 |
Status | Museum ship at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience[4] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Paddlesteamer |
Tonnage | 556 GRT[1] |
Length |
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Beam |
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Propulsion | Triple expansion, diagonal stroke, reciprocating steam engine[3] |
Speed | 12.0 knots (22.2 km/h; 13.8 mph)[4] |
The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.[4]
The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle.[5] A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.[3]
She was earmarked to become a floating restaurant in Swansea Marina in the early 1980s but was too wide to fit through the lock gates.[3] She is now preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool as a floating exhibit at Jackson Dock, as part of the Hartlepool's Maritime Experience visitor attraction, which also includes HMS Trincomalee.[3][4]
Pictures
- The Wingfield Castle in September 1973 on the Humber estuary
- The Wingfield Castle funnel in September 1973
See also
- PS Kingswear Castle
- PS Tattershall Castle
- PS Waverley
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "P.S. Wingfield Castle". paddlesteamers.info. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Wingfield Castle". nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "PSS Wingfield Castle History". thisishartlepool.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Hartlepool's Maritime Experience - Pss Wingfield Castle". hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ Baker, Clive (December 2017). "Railway Steamers". British Railway Modelling. Warners Group. p. 83. ISSN 0968-0764.
External links
- Media related to IMO 5392018 at Wikimedia Commons
- Wingfield Castle website
- National Historic Ships
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