Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,011 pages of information and 250,208 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

PS Limerick

From Graces Guide

Owned by the Great Western Railway

The LIMERICK was a sister ship to the WATERFORD and had hurricane decks fore and aft and one funnel aft of the engines. These boats were almost identical in design and appearance. Like her immediate predecessors, she was built at Renfrew in 1874, and was 251.8 ft. long, 29.2 ft. beam, and 15.2 ft. depth of hold. The n.h.p. of engines was 400 and the tonnage 442 net and 914 gross.[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. ‘Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers’ by George Frank Burtt