Builders: Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd 1912
Propulsion type: Paddle
Owners: Great Central Railway Co, London North Eastern Railway Co
Service dates: 1912 - 1945
Tonnage: Gross 508
Comments:
Killingholme was a double ended paddle steamer built for the Hull to New Holland service on the Humber. Almost immediately after delivery she was used for the official opening of the King George V Dock at Immingham by the King and Queen Mary. In addition to Humber ferry duties she did excursion work, particulary after the introduction in 1934 of Wingfield Castle and Tattershall Castle. Her cruises took her from Grimsby to the Royal Dock Basin, Spurn Head and Hull. She also did some tender work, when not otherwise engaged. In 1935 she carried 44,000 passengers on excursions from Hull to Grimsby, where this picture was taken. Killingholme became a sea-plane carrier during the Second World War and was scrapped in 1945 at Paull, on the River Humber.