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TSS North Wall

twin screw steamer cargo vessel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7671701 ↗
Source-derived summary

TSS North Wall was a twin screw steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) from 1883 to 1904.

History

She was built by Robert Duncan and Company of Port Glasgow for the London and North Western Railway in 1883 as a cargo vessel. She is notable as the first screw propulsion vessel acquired by the London and North Western Railway. She operated on the Holyhead, Wales to Dublin, Ireland route.

Her name North Wall reflected the LNWR's terminus in Dublin.

She was scrapped in 1904.

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“TSS North Wall” enters the record as twin screw steamer cargo vessel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what North, Wall and twin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around North, Wall and twin.
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This entry incorporates text from “TSS North Wall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.