SS Halifax (1872)

History
Name:	SS Halifax
Operator:	Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	John Elder and Company, Govan
Yard number:	149
Launched:	17 December 1872
Out of service:	18 February 1876
Fate:	Sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage:	1,079 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	231 feet (70 m)
Beam:	30.2 feet (9.2 m)

SS Halifax was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1872.^[1]

History

The ship was built by John Elder and Company of Govan and launched on 17 December 1872.^[2] She was the second in an order for two ships from the same shipyard, the other being Huddersfield.

On 16 February 1876 she left Grimsby for Hamburg, and on 17 February ran ashore at Heligoland. She broke up in a storm on 15 March 1876^[3] and was a total loss. Unfortunately for the railway company had not insured her and this added to the losses reported by the company later that year.^[4]

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Launches - Govan". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 18 December 1872. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
3. "Wreck of a steamer at Heligoland". York Herald. England. 18 March 1876. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
4. "The Great Eastern and Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Companies". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 15 September 1872. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).