SS Ben-my-Chree (1875)

SS Ben-my-Chree was an iron paddle-steamer of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and was the second vessel of the company to bear the name.

Description
Ben-my-Chree was built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company and launched at Barrow-in-Furness on 6 May 1875.

She had an original tonnage of, but this was increased to after a refit. She had a length of 310 ft, beam-length of 31 ft, and a depth of 13 ft.

With a top speed of 14 kn at 2300 shp, and fitted with two oscillating two-cylinder engines with a 65 in diameter and 90 in stroke. It was subsequently found that she operated two knots below her recorded top speed, despite modifications to her boilers. Reboilered in 1884, she was altered to carry four funnels, in pairs fore and aft of the paddle-boxes. This made her the only four-funnelled vessel in line's history.

After an uneventful 31-year career, Ben-my-Chree was sold for scrap and broken up at Morecambe, in 1906.