Belfast (ship)

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Belfast p1
Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (trade flag) United Kingdom
Ship type Paddle steamer
Shipyard Ritchie
Launch around 1820
Ship dimensions and crew
displacement 190 tn.l.
Machine system
machine Steam engine
Machine
performance 		70 hp (51 kW)
propeller 2 paddle wheels

The Belfast was a paddle steamer . The steamship operated as a parcel ship between Liverpool and Dublin and was one of the first to cross the Irish Sea .

The ship was in the shipyard built Ritchie and was associated with a 70-horsepower steam engine of the company Robert Napier & Sons equipped.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Second Report of the Select Committee on the Roads from London to Holyhead, and from Chester to Holyhead. Steam Packets. , 1822, p. 234 ( online )