PS ''Zealous'' was a passenger vessel built for the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

in 1864.

History

The ship was built by the

J & W Dudgeon J & W Dudgeon was a Victorian shipbuilding and engineering company based in Cubitt Town, London, founded by John and William Dudgeon. John and William Dudgeon had established the ''Sun Iron Works'' in Millwall in the 1850s, and had a reputatio ...

Cubitt Town Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of L ...

, London for the

and launched on 23 April 1864. She was launched by Miss Alice Goodson, eldest daughter of the chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company. ''Zealous'' was the first of a trio of new vessels, and inaugurated the GER's passenger services from Harwich to both Rotterdam and Antwerp in 1865, later joined by and . ''Zealous'' was altered in 1866 to carry cargo as well as passengers, and she was re-boilered in 1873. On 8 August 1875, she ran aground at Harwich, then refloated. She was withdrawn from service in 1887 and broken up.

References

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