TSS Colleen Bawn (1903)
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TSS Colleen Bawn was a twin screw passenger vessel operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways...

 from 1903 to 1928.

History

She was built by Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport which forms about half the territory of the wider Borough of Barrow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria, England. It lies north of Liverpool, northwest of Manchester and southwest from the county town of Carlisle...

 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways...

 in 1903. With her sister ship TSS Mellifont
TSS Mellifont (1903)
TSS Mellifont was a twin screw passenger vessel operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1903 to 1928.-History:She was built by Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1903...

 she operated a passenger and freight service from Drogheda to Liverpool as a replacement for the paddle steamers PS Tredagh
PS Tredagh (1876)
PS Tredagh was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the Drogheda Steam Packet Company from 1876 to 1902 and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1902 to 1912.-History:She was built by A. & J...

 and PS Kathleen Mavourneen
PS Kathleen Mavourneen (1885)
PS Kathleen Mavourneen was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the Drogheda Steam Packet Company from 1855 to 1902 and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1902 to 1903.-History:She was built by A...

.

In 1928 she moved to the Holyhead
Holyhead
Holyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland....

 to Greenore
Greenore
Greenore is a small town, townland and deep water port on Carlingford Lough in County Louth, Ireland. The population of Greenore and the surrounding rural area was 898 in the 2002 Irish census....

route.

She was scrapped in 1931.
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