PS Wingfield Castle
The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.
The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle. A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.
She was earmarked to become a floating restaurant in Swansea Marina in the early 1980s but was too wide to fit through the lock gates. She is now preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool as a floating exhibit at Jackson Dock, as part of the Hartlepool's Maritime Experience visitor attraction, which also includes HMS Trincomalee.
Pictures
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The Wingfield Castle in September 1973 on the Humber estuary -
The Wingfield Castle funnel in September 1973
See also
References
- ^ "P.S. Wingfield Castle". paddlesteamers.info. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ "Wingfield Castle". nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ "PSS Wingfield Castle History". thisishartlepool.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ "Hartlepool's Maritime Experience - Pss Wingfield Castle". hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ Baker, Clive (December 2017). "Railway Steamers". British Railway Modelling. Warners Group. p. 83. ISSN 0968-0764.
External links
Media related to IMO 5392018 at Wikimedia Commons- Wingfield Castle website
- National Historic Ships
54°41′23″N 1°12′21″W / 54.68972°N 1.20583°W
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