PS Wingfield Castle
 The PSS Wingfield Castle located Hartlepool's Maritime Experience in Hartlepool, UK | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name: | PSS Wingfield Castle |
| Namesake: | Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, UK |
| Owner: | LNER |
| Route: | Humber Ferry crossing |
| Ordered: | 1934 |
| Builder: | William Gray & Company, Hartlepool, UK |
| Laid down: | 27 June 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1934 |
| Decommissioned: | 1974 |
| Status: | Preserved as a museum ship at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Paddlesteamer |
| Tonnage: | 550 GT |
| Length: | 209 ft (64 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft (17 m) (including paddle box) |
| Propulsion: | Triple expansion, diagonal stroke, reciprocating steam engine |
| Speed: | 12.0 knots (22.2 km/h; 13.8 mph) |
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 visitor attraction known as "Hartlepool's Maritime Experience", which also includes HMS Trincomalee.
Pictures
The "Wingfield Castle" in September 1973 on River Humber
The "Schornstein" in September 1973
See also
External links
Media related to Wingfield Castle (ship, 1934) at Wikimedia Commons- Wingfield Castle website
- National Historic Ships
Coordinates: 54°41′23″N 1°12′21″W / 54.68972°N 1.20583°W