PS Lady Tyler
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PS Lady Tyler was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1880.{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=English |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}
History
The ship was built by T and W Smith in North Shields for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 12 January 1880.{{cite news |author= |title=Launch of a new steamer for the Great Eastern Railway Co. |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001321/18800117/079/0004 |newspaper=Framlingham Weekly News |location=England |date=17 January 1880 |access-date=2 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} She was launched by Miss Luckley, daughter of G. Luckley, a member of the firm of T and W Smith, and named after Lady Tyler, the wife of Sir Henry Tyler, chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, and the conservative candidate for Harwich.
On 6 May 1880, she ran aground on the Black Middens, off the mouth of the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=7 May 1880 |issue=3206 }} She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 May 1880 |issue=10085 }} Lady Tyler was placed on the Harwich to Rotterdam route.{{cite book |last=Haws |first=Duncan |year=1993 |title=Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena |location=Hereford |publisher=TCL Publications |isbn=0-946378-22-3 }}
In 1893 she was disposed of by the railway company and sold to Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Hull. She was then used for transporting coal.{{cite news |author= |title=The Lady Tyler |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000323/18940928/005/0003 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=28 September 1894 |access-date=2 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
On 25 May 1895 she launched a new steamship service between Liverpool and Douglas by the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers Limited.{{cite news |author= |title=Mutual Line of Manx Steamers |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000168/18950528/020/0003 |newspaper=Isles of Man Times |location=Isle of Man |date=28 May 1895 |access-date=2 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} The new service had an inauspicious start however, when Lady Tyler collided with the Isle of Man Steam Packet company ship {{SS|Mona's Isle|1882|2}} on 4 June 1895 when arriving into Liverpool after an overnight sailing from Douglas.{{cite news |author= |title=Two Isle of Man Steamers in Collision |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000168/18950604/007/0002 |newspaper=Isles of Man Times |location=Isle of Man |date=4 June 1895 |access-date=2 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} After a week of repairs she returned to service but on Saturday 15 June 1895 she collided with Victoria Pier, and sustained damage. She ceased running for the Mutual Line of Manx Steamers on 22 July 1895, and the company was wound up later that year.
In 1897 she was renamed Artemis.{{cite news |author= |title=The Lady Tyler, of Hull, is to be re-named Artemis |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/18970602/049/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=2 June 1897 |access-date=2 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
She was sold by 1905 to George Sandford, and used as a coal hulk in Gravesend until around 1955.
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Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom
Category:Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships built on the River Tyne