SS Equity
{{Short description|British freighter}}
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SS Equity was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=en |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}
History
She was built by Earle's Shipbuilding{{csr|register=MSI|id=1091317|access-date=15 December 2009}} for the Co-operative Wholesale Society for their special trade between Hamburg and Goole and launched on 7 July 1888.{{cite news |author= |title=Society's Steamer at Hull |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000181/18880710/026/0003 |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=England |date=10 July 1888 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
On 19 November 1890 she collided with the steamer Cuxhaven from Hamburg in the Goole channel. The Cuxhaven received severe damage and was beached to prevent sinking.{{cite news |author= |title=Disasters to Shipping |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000289/18901119/052/0004 |newspaper=Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |location=England |date=19 November 1890 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} She grounded on sand at Goole in July 1891, but floated free on the next high tide.{{cite news |author= |title=The British Steamer Equity |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000287/18910715/013/0003 |newspaper=Shields Daily Gazette |location=England |date=15 July 1891 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} In March 1896 the ship fireman, William Costello, was admitted to a charge of smuggling in {{convert|61|lbs|kg}} of compressed tobacco and {{convert|14|lbs|kg}} of cavendish, with an estimated duty of £24, 7s 6d. He was remanded for 8 days.{{cite news |author= |title=Smuggling on the Equity |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/18960330/047/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=30 March 1896 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} She was badly damaged in a collision with the Goole Steam Shipping Company vessel Aire on 14 December 1896 in the River Humber.{{cite news |author= |title=Goole "Mail" Mems |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/18961215/060/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=15 December 1896 |access-date=24 October 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}
She was lengthened in 1900 with a revised tonnage of 924, and obtained in 1905 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to be employed on the Goole – Hamburg service. She was captured in Hamburg in 1914 and was returned to her owners in 1918 having spent the war period mainly serving traffic to Finland from Germany. On 25 May 1920 she ran aground in fog on Alderney in the Channel Islands carrying a cargo of potatoes from Jersey;{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 May 1920 |page=21 |issue=42421 |column=C }} she was refloated on 15 June 1920.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 June 1920 |page=21 |issue=42439 |column=C }} In 1921 whilst on passage from Jersey to Goole on the 'potato trade' she grounded and sank but was later raised.
In 1922 she was taken over by the London and North Western Railway, and in 1923 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. On 12 June 1925, she collided with the British steamer {{SS|Rena||2}} in the North Sea off the Would Lightship and was beached at Horsey, Norfolk.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 June 1925 |page=23 |issue=43987 |column=E }} On 16 December 1927 she collided with the British cargo ship {{SS|Eden Force||2}} at Antwerp, Belgium; Eden Force was beached,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 December 1927 |page=20 |issue=44767 |column=D }} but later was patched and towed to Terneuzen, Zeeland, in the Netherlands. Equity again grounded at Alderney in June 1930, but despite being partially swamped she was salved again. She was eventually scrapped in December 1931 at Greenock, Scotland.{{harvnb|Haws|1993|p=70}}
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Haws|first=Duncan |title=Merchant Fleets - Britain's Railway Steamers - Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena |year=1993|publisher=TCL Publications|location=Hereford|isbn=0-946378-22-3}}
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Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships built on the Humber
Category:Ships of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Category:Ships of the London and North Western Railway
Category:Ships of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Category:Maritime incidents in 1890
Category:Maritime incidents in 1891
Category:Maritime incidents in 1896
Category:Maritime incidents in 1920
Category:Maritime incidents in 1921
Category:Maritime incidents in 1925