PS Banshee
Owned by the London and North Western Railway
‘Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers’ by George Frank Burtt
On the 30th January, 1884, the BANSHEE was launched by Messrs. Laird’s and was the last paddle steamer to be built for the Company. She had a speed of 19 knots, was 310 feet long, 31.4 feet beam, 14.3 feet deep; gross tonnage 1,250.
The BANSHEE was fitted with a pair of oscillating jet condensing engines having cylinders 80 in. by 84 in. stroke, supplied with steam by eight boilers working at a pressure of 30 lb. per square inch, developing 3,000 i.h.p. and driving the ship at a speed of 19 knots. The BANSHEE was built entirely of steel and the boilers were also of the same material. (Many of the boilers for this company’s steamers, it may be mentioned, were built at the Crewe Locomotive Works). She was illuminated by electricity.
In 1894, she was fitted with new engines and boilers. The new engines were three cylinder compound, having diameters of 44, 70 and 108 inches respectively, the stroke of the pistons being 78 inches. The nominal h.p. was 1,030.
The BANSHEE was sold in February, 1906.