PS Hibernia (1847)

PS Hibernia was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the Chester and Holyhead Railway from 1847 to 1859 and the London and North Western Railway from 1859 to 1877.

[1] She was built by Thomas Vernon of Liverpool for the Chester and Holyhead Railway.

[citation needed] On 27 September 1849, she towed the disabled Cambria in to Holyhead, Anglesey.

[2] On 1 October 1854, she assisted in the refloating of Ocean, which had run aground off Ringsend, County Dublin the next day.

[citation needed] She was sold to the Waterford and Limerick Railway in 1877 and used as a hulk until 1897.