Mona's Isle (1950)

Mona's Isle (1950)
Career
Name: TSS Mona’s Isle
Owner: 1951–1980: IOMSPCo.
Operator: 1951–1980: IOMSPCo.
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Cammell Laird
Cost: £570,000
Yard number: 1209
Launched: 12 October 1950
Maiden voyage: 22 March 1951
Out of service: 1980
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,491 gross register tons (GRT)
Speed: 21.5 knots

TSS Mona’s Isle was a passenger vessel operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from 1951 to 1980.[1]

History

She was built at Cammell Laird, as one of six ships delivered by the company between 1946 and 1955 at a cost of £570,000 (£14,555,376 as of 2011),[2].

She operated between Liverpool or Fleetwood to Douglas on the Isle of Man.

References

  1. ^ Shipping world & shipbuilder: Volume 165. 1972
  2. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.