PS Snaefell (1863)
1863 Built by Caird and Co. 700 tons. Owned by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co
‘Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers’ by George Frank Burtt
From 1863 to 1876, six paddle steamers were built for the company (the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co), all bearing familiar names. They all had greater speed and size than those that had preceded them, and they afforded better and more comfortable accommodation to their passengers.
They were all successful boats, especially the SNAEFELL, which accomplished the run to Liverpool in four hours and twenty-one minutes. She was purchased in 1875 by the Zeeland Steamship Company and gave such satisfaction that they also chartered for a time her successor of the same name.
The SNAEFELL, which had two funnels, one forward and the other aft of the engines, was built and engined by Caird & Co., of Greenock, in 1863 ; she was 228,6 feet long, 26.3 feet beam, 14.1 feet depth, gross tonnage 604, and had oscillating engines of 250 n.h.p., there being two cylinders 58 in, diameter having a 69 inch stroke. The boiler pressure was 30 lb, per sq, in.