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PS ''Slieve Bearnagh'' was a United Kingdom passenger paddle steamer that in later years was called ''HC5''. J&G Thomson launched her in 1893〔 or 1894 for the Belfast and County Down Railway (B&CDR). In 1912 she was sold to D&J Nicol of Dundee. Around the end of the First World War she served with the Royal Navy as hospital carrier ship ''HC5''. She was scrapped in 1923. ==With the B&CDR== J&G Thomson of Clydebank built the ship for the B&CDR, who named her ''Slieve Bearnagh'' after the second highest peak in the Mourne Mountains in County Down. Sources disagree as to whether she was launched on 21 November 1893〔 or 21 March 1894. She made her trial run on Belfast Lough on 1 May 1894 In the spring of 1893 Thomson had built the slightly smaller steamer for the B&CDR. In May 1894 ''Slieve Bearnagh'' joined ''Slieve Donard'' on the company's regular steamship route between Belfast and Bangor, for which the scheduled journey time was 55 minutes. Between them the two ships made six sailings ''per'' day from Belfast to Bangor from Mondays to Saturdays and a similar number back to Belfast. There were five sailings on Sundays, and from Mondays to Saturdays one sailing ''per'' day extended beyond Bangor to Donaghadee. On Saturday afternoons other sailings continued from Bangor across Belfast Lough to Larne. The railway sold ''Donard'' in 1899 but kept ''Bearnagh'' until 1912. She occasionally made excursions to Portaferry on the Ards Peninsula, Ardglass in south Down, and Larne and Portrush on the coast of County Antrim in addition to her regular scheduled route on Belfast Lough. The Board of Trade certificated ''Slieve Bearnagh'' to carry 958 passengers along the coast between Belfast and Bangor or 871 passengers on the more open sea voyage between Belfast and Larne. A report by the B&CDR's General Manager records that in November 1904 her Master, Captain McCorquodale, was summonsed for overloading the ship. At the end of the 1911 summer season the B&CDR ordered a replacement ship for £24,000 and put ''Slieve Bearnagh'' up for sale for £12,000. No-one offered to buy at that price so the railway reduced it to £10,000 by the end of 1911 and later to £7,000. The replacement ship, the slightly larger PS ''Erin's Isle'', was launched on 12 June 1912, and finally on 19 June 1912 ''Slieve Bearnagh'' was sold for only £4,350. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PS Slieve Bearnagh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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