Lutterworth

Lutterworth (c. G.Robinson)

Ownership

1891 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company
1897 Great Central Railway Company
(1914 - 1915 Admiralty requisition)
1923 LNER

Capacity

50 1st class plus 360 emigrant class. Reduced to 12 passengers in the 1920s.

Routes

Grimsby to Hamburg
From 1919 Grimsby to Rotterdam and Antwerp

Shipbuilder

Earle's Ship Building & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull (yard no. 343)
Launched 08/04/1891  Completed 06/1891

Dimensions

GRT: 1002grt

Length: 240.6ft.

Beam: 32ft.

Engine builder

Earle's Ship Building & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion, 22", 35", 57" x 42", 250NHP. 13.5 knots.

Notes

Requisitioned as a naval stores carrier in October 1914, released in October 1915. Sold in 1932 to British & Irish Steam Packet Company without change of name. Broken up at Preston in March 1933.

Acknowledgments

Compiled by George Robinson.