Lot Essay
The twin-screw steamer Curraghmore was built for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway by Denny at Dumbarton in 1919. Registered at 2,217 tons gross (1,587 net), she measured 307 feet in length with a 40 foot beam and could steam at 20 knots. The first steamer in the L.M.S. fleet to be fitted with single-reduction geared turbines, she had coal-fired boilers and bunker capacity for 120 tons of fuel. Though intended for the company's Holyhead to Greenore service, she began life on the Dublin run due to the shortage of capacity there and only started operating to Greenore (near Dundalk) in 1921. Subsequently working on various routes, including Heysham to Douglas (I.O.M.), she was permanently transferred to that service in July 1930, when she was renamed Duke of Abercorn, but was scrapped in 1935.