Saturday 11 August 2012

SS Ibex

Ibex was built for the "Great Western Railway Company" by "Laird Bros" and operated on the Weymouth to Channel Islands route. She cost £57,000 to build in 1890.

GWR fitted an 80 volt dynamo amid ships and 196 lights through out Ibex.

  • Official No: 98375
  • Year built: 1891
  • Length: 265 ft
  • Beam: 32.6 ft
  • Draft: 14.2 ft
  • Displacement: 1160 tons
  • Engine: Vertical triple expansion
  • NHP: 282
  • Speed: 19 Knots
  • No of propellers: 2
  • Year scrapped: 1925

Ibex leaving St Peter Port, Guernsey for England.