Staveley

Ownership

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

Capacity

30 - 47 1^st 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. 165)

Launched 04/1891  Completed 07/1891

Dimensions

GRT: 1034grt

Length: 240.2ft.

Beam: 32ft.

Engine builder

Westgarth, English & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion, 22", 35", 57" x 42", 244NHP. 12.5 knots.

Notes

1914 - 1919 served in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary service as a stores carrier. Post-war on GER service between Tilbury and Rotterdam, with passenger capacity reduced to 12. Sold in 1932 to British & Irish Steam Packet Company and renamed LADY GLEN. Broken up at Preston in  August 1933.