PS Manchester was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1876.

[1] The ship was built by the Goole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company and launched in 1876[2] She was used for the Humber Ferry Service.

She was painted above the deck-line in black, blue and gold, and on her bows were painted the Prince of Wales’s feathers, and scrolls in a variety of colours, embracing the rose, the shamrock and the thistle.

[3] On Sunday 13 January 1895 the New Holland Pier railway station was destroyed by fire.

The Manchester transported her crew from Grimsby to aid with the rescue efforts.