SS Warrington (1886)

SS Warrington was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1886.

[1] The ship was built by Swan Hunter and launched on 9 June 1886 by Mrs.

The saloon furnishings were fitted with panels of Hungarian ash, the mouldings were of walnut, the stiles of oak with carved oak pilasters and Corinthian capitals.

On Saturday 6 December 1903 she ran aground and was lost on the sands near Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast.

[4] The Board of Trade enquiry in January 1904 found that Captain G. H. Morris was guilty of a grave error of judgment in relying solely upon the lights of vessels as evidence of his position.