PS Earl of Ulster was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1878 to 1894.[1]
Earl of Ulster was built by the Barrow Iron Shipbuilding Co., Barrow in Furness, Lancashire for the North Lancashire Steam Navigation Co. She was launched on 24 November 1877.[2] She operated on services from Fleetwood to Belfast.
On 30 June 1883, she was involved in a collision off the Isle of Man with the schooner Susanna.[3]
On 12 March 1889, she collided with the Holywood Lighthouse in Belfast Lough and destroyed it.[4]
After being sold to A M Carlisle in 1894, Earl of Ulster passed into the ownership of J McCausland of Portaferry and was briefly put into service on Strangford Lough running excursion trips for one season before being broken up.[5]