The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.[4]
The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle.[5] A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.[3]
She was earmarked to become a floating restaurant in Swansea Marina in the early 1980s but was too wide to fit through the lock gates.[3] She is now preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool as a floating exhibit at Jackson Dock, as part of the Hartlepool's Maritime Experience visitor attraction, which also includes HMS Trincomalee.[3][4]
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See also
- PS Kingswear Castle
- PS Tattershall Castle
- PS Waverley
External links
References
- P.S. Wingfield Castle paddlesteamers.info, retrieved 18 August 2017^
- Wingfield Castle nationalhistoricships.org.uk, retrieved 18 August 2017^
- PSS Wingfield Castle History thisishartlepool.co.uk, retrieved 18 August 2017^
- Hartlepool's Maritime Experience - Pss Wingfield Castle hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com, retrieved 18 August 2017^
- Clive Baker. Railway Steamers British Railway Modelling, Warners Group, December 2017^