Nottingham

Ownership

1891 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company
1897 Great Central Railway Company
(1914 - 1919 Admiralty requisition as NOTTS)
1923 LNER

Capacity

30 - 47 1st class plus 330 emigrant class. Reduced to 12 passengers in the 1920s.

Routes

Grimsby to Hamburg.
Later loaned to the GER for service Tilbury - Rotterdam.

Shipbuilder

C. S. Swan & Hunter, Newcastle (yard no. 164)
Launched 13/03/1891  Completed 05/1891

Dimensions

GRT: 1033grt

Engine builder

Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, Wallsend

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion, 22", 35", 57" x 42", 238NHP. 12.5 knots.

Notes

1914 - 1919 served in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary service under the name NOTTS, as a stores carrier. Post-war on GER service between Tilbury and Rotterdam, with passenger capacity reduced to 12. Broken up at Inverkeithing, arrived in October 1935.

Acknowledgments

Compiled by George Robinson.