PS Suffolk (1895)

PS Suffolk was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1895.

[1] The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1900.

She was built of steel and equipped with a double-ended hull, with two rudders adapted for steaming with equal facility astern or ahead.

Unusually she was launched with machinery on board complete, and with steam up, and she made a short run on the Humber estuary, prior to being berthed in the Victoria Dock She was used on local services and coastal excursions.

[3] In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and they scrapped her in 1931.