PS Alexandra (1863)
From Graces Guide
1863 Built by Laird Brothers. 703 tons.
Used by the Holyhead and Dublin Ferry
The service was transferred from Kingstown to North Wall, Dublin, in 1861, and two years later Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead, built and engined the ALEXANDRA; she was 226.6 feet long, 28.3 feet beam and 16 feet deep; her tonnage was 828 gross and 476 net. This vessel had direct acting oscillating engines of 320 n.h.p., having cylinders 66 in. by 69 in. stroke; the boiler pressure was 18 lb. and the speed 13 knots. The ship was re-boilered in 1870 and withdrawn from service in 1889.[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ ‘Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers’ by George Frank Burtt