PS Lancashire Witch
From Graces Guide
‘Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers’ by George Frank Burtt
It may be of passing interest to record that another opposition company was started in 1887. It was called the Isle of Man Steam Navigation Company, or the “ Lancashire Line.” Its only steamer, the LANCASHIRE WITCH, a screw boat, made the passage between Liverpool and Douglas in four hours on an average.
The history of this company was a brief and inglorious one, its steamer being sold by order of the mortgagees in May, 1888. The LANCASHIRE WITCH was sent out to Australia and renamed the COOGEE
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