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History
Name
1871-1890:Richard Young
1890-1905:Brandon
Operator
Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry
Builder
J & W Dudgeon , Cubitt Town, London
Launched 1871
Out of service 1905
Fate Scrapped 1905
General characteristics
Tonnage
Length
1871-1890:239.8 feet (73.1 m)
1890-1905:245 feet (75 m)
Beam 27 feet (8.2 m)
Depth 13.5 feet (4.1 m)
PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the
Great Eastern Railway in 1871.
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History
The ship was built by
J & W Dudgeon in
Cubitt Town London for the
Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871.
[2]
Named after
a director of the railway company, she was used for their Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services.
[3]
[4]
In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by
Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon .
She was scrapped in 1905.
References
^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers . Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
^
"Harwich. Continental Steamers" . The Suffolk Chronicle . England. 11 November 1871. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
^
"The Continental Traffic" . The Chelmsford Chronicle . No. 5577. 10 November 1871. p. 6. Retrieved 30 August 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena . Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 40.
ISBN
0-946378-22-3 .