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History
Name	SS Macclesfield
Operator	1914–1923: Great Central Railway 1923–1935: London and North Eastern Railway 1935–1948: Associated Humber Lines 1948–1958: British Railways
Port of registry
Builder	Swan Hunter
Yard number	936
Launched	22 May 1914
Out of service	1958
Fate	Scrapped 1958
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,018 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	250 feet (76 m)
Beam	34.2 feet (10.4 m)
Depth	16 feet (4.9 m)

SS Macclesfield was a cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1914.

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter and launched on 22 May 1914 by Miss Fay, daughter of Sir Sam Fay, general manager of the Great Central Railway. She was the second of an order of two ships from Swan Hunter, the other being Chesterfield. She was deployed on the Grimsby to Rotterdam service.

In 1923 she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and in 1935 to Associated Humber Lines. In 1948 she was in the ownership of British Railways and scrapped in 1958 in Utrecht.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Launch of the S.S. Macclesfield". Newcastle Journal. England. 25 May 1914. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "Trial Trip of the Macclesfield". Newcastle Journal. England. 23 June 1914. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "Macclesfield". Tyne Built Ships. Retrieved 10 November 2015.

• 1914 ships
• Steamships of the United Kingdom
• Ships built on the River Tyne
• Ships of the Great Central Railway
• Ships of the London and North Eastern Railway
• Ships of Associated Humber Lines
• Ships of British Rail