PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1871.

[1] The ship was built by J & W Dudgeon in Cubitt Town London for the Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871.

[2] Named after a director of the railway company, she was used for their Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services.

[3][4] In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon.

She was scrapped in 1905.