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Side-Wheeled Paddle Steamers
Liverpool & Dublin Steam Navigation Company
Passenger / Cargo service
Bridgewater
Built in 1863 by Caird & Co of Greenock
228.6 ft : 601 GRT
Engines : Oscillating
Laid down for G & J Burns Irish service with the intended name of Roe
Sold off the stocks for USA blockade running and named City of Petersburg
In 1865 was bought by the Liverpool & Dublin Steam Navigation Company and named Bridgewater
Sold to Alexander Laird of Glasgow in 1868 and renamed Garland
Scrapped in 1881
Sheffield
Built in 1864 by Caird & Co of Greenock
227.8 ft : 703 GRT
Engines : Oscillating
Launched as Alfred for the Bristol General Steam Navigation Co
Sold in 1864 for USA blockade running as Old Dominion
In 1865 was bought by the Liverpool & Dublin Steam Navigation Company and named Sheffield
From 1867 to 1870 owned privately at Fleetwood
From 1871 sailed for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway / London & North Western railway joint Irish Sea service as Prince Arthur
From 1877 owned by Thomas Seed at Fleetwood
Sold to Glasgow-based Robert Bruce in 1883 and hulked in 1885
Great Northern
Built in 1866 by J Key at Kinghorn
260.6 ft : 889 GRT
Engines : Oscillating
Built to the order of Crenshaw & Co of Liverpool for intended use as a blockade runner as Judge King
In 1866 was bought by the Liverpool & Dublin Steam Navigation Company as Great Northern
Sold to the Dublin & Glasgow Sailing Steam Packet Co in 1867 and renamed Marquis of Abercorn
Lost after a collision near Belfast in May 1869 with the loss of 200 head of cattle
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