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SS Equity
SS ''Equity'' was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888. History She was built by Earle's Shipbuilding for the Co-operative Wholesale Society for their special trade between Hamburg and Goole and launched on 7 July 1888. On 19 November 1890 she collided with the steamer ''Cuxhaven'' from Hamburg in the Goole channel. The ''Cuxhaven'' received severe damage and was beached to prevent sinking. She grounded on sand at Goole in July 1891, but floated free on the next high tide. In March 1896 the ship fireman, William Costello, was admitted to a charge of smuggling in of compressed tobacco and of cavendish, with an estimated duty of £24, 7s 6d. He was remanded for 8 days. She was badly damaged in a collision with the Goole Steam Shipping Company vessel ''Aire'' on 14 December 1896 in the River Humber. She was lengthened in 1900 with a revised tonnage of 924, and obtained in 1905 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to be employed on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire And Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major History of rail transport in Great Britain, British railway company before the Railways Act 1921, 1923 Grouping. It was Incorporation (business)#Incorporation in the United Kingdom, incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in northern England (after the Midland Railway, Midland and North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom), North Eastern Railways). The intensity of its service was reflected in the 1,650 steam locomotive, locomotives it owned – it was by far the most densely-trafficked system in the British Isles with more locomotives per mile than any other company – and that one third of its 738 signal boxes controlled junctions averaging one every . No two adjacent stations were more than apart and its 1,904 passenger services occupied 57 pages in ''George Bradshaw#Bradshaw.27s railway timetables, Bradshaw'', a number exceed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
