PS Wingfield Castle explained

The PS Wingfield Castle is a former Humber Estuary ferry, now preserved as a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.^[1]

The Wingfield Castle was built by William Gray & Company at Hartlepool, and launched in 1934, along with a sister ship, the Tattershall Castle.^[2] A third similar vessel, the Lincoln Castle built in Glasgow, was launched in 1940.

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. 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.^[1]

See also

• PS Kingswear Castle
• PS Tattershall Castle
• PS Waverley

External links

• • Wingfield Castle website
• National Historic Ships

54.6897°N -1.2058°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hartlepool's Maritime Experience - Pss Wingfield Castle. hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com. 18 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20161010074444/http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com/home/pss-wingfield-castle/. 10 October 2016. dead.
2. Baker. Clive. Railway Steamers. British Railway Modelling. December 2017. 83. Warners Group. 0968-0764.