EMPRESS

Built 1893
Type Passenger Steamer
Tonnages 156 grt, 79 nrt
Length / beam / draft 140.2 x 17.1 x 7.3 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) J. Reid & Co., Glasgow (271)
Engine Builder J. G. Kincaid & Co. Ltd.
Engine T3cyl (7, 15, 24 x 12in), 20 nhp, paddle
O.N. 98395
Owners 1893 The Goole and Hull Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Goole
  1917 Tay Steamboat Company, to Dundee registry 25/04/1917.
  1918 Cork, Blackrock & Passage Railway Co, Cork - reg Cork
  c1922 Marqués de Olaso, Bilbao - reg Seville; renamed SANLUCAR
  From c1922 in service with the owner's "Linea de Vapores Sevilla-Sanlúcar", operating on the River Guadalquivir between Seville and Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
   
Fate Deleted from Lloyd's Register around 1930

 

Seen on the left at Victoria Pier, Hull

From the collection of Stan Threadgould

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