PS Ipswich was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1864.

She replaced the Eastern Counties ship Cardinal Wolsey on the Ipswich to Harwich service and made her maiden voyage on 25 August 1864.

[2] On 9 August 1865 she was returning from Harwich at low tide, and got aground near Hog Highland.

This was not seen by the Captain, who as the boys were pushing off, gave the order to go ahead, and the paddle wheel turned and the boat was broken and its occupants thrown overboard.

Mrs Gibbons was also in a bad state, but recovered sufficiently to go home, but she died of inflammation of the lungs the next day.