Maritime museums · South East England
SS Shieldhall
In or near Southampton.
SS Shieldhall in England South East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Millbrook · 0.7 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
Getting there & planning your visit
To visit SS Shieldhall, you can reach it via the nearest railway station, Millbrook, which is 0.7 km away. The postcode for navigation is SO15 0HH. Please note that accessibility is limited for wheelchair users.
About
SS Shieldhall is a preserved museum ship in England South East, United Kingdom — a vessel of historic significance preserved as a public visitor attraction. Britain's museum ships span Tudor warships (Mary Rose), tea clippers (Cutty Sark), Victorian battleships (HMS Warrior) and 20th-century submarines.
Photo gallery
Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: The New Forest SSSI
- Ramsar wetland: New Forest
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
SS Shieldhall is a preserved steamship that operates from Southampton. She is the largest operational historic steamship in Europe and one of the last reciprocating steam engined ships built, using technology that dated back to the last quarter of the 19th century and which was obsolete at the time of her construction. She spent her working life as one of the "Clyde sludge boats", making regular trips from Shieldhall in Glasgow, Scotland, down the River Clyde and Firth of Clyde past the Isle of Arran, to dump treated sewage sludge at sea. These steamships had a tradition, dating back to the First World War, of taking organised parties of passengers on their trips during the summer. SS Shieldhall has been preserved and offers cruises to the paying public.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The 1,972-ton Shieldhall was laid down in October 1954, built by Lobnitz & Co. of Renfrew for the municipal Glasgow Corporation. She was the fourth 'sludge boat' built for the Corporation to carry treated sewage from the Corporation's three treatment works (at Dalmarnock, Dalmuir and Shieldhall) to the outer parts of the Firth of Clyde for disposal at sea, and replaced an older ship of the same name (the second of the fleet to be built, in 1910). Aside from their unglamorous and practical part in the final stage of Glasgow's city sewage system, the sludge boats also provided day trips for passengers. This practice had begun during World War I when the Corporation offered the use of its…
Visiting
Shieldhall has made many television appearances, including in Casualty, Lovejoy, Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam, and Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles. She represented the Titanic in Myths of the Titanic and played a Spanish ship, Begona, in Floella Benjamin's Coming to England. In 1999, the ship was used in Rede Globo's Brazilian telenovela Terra Nostra, playing a fictional Italian ship Andrea I. Film appearances include Angela's Ashes and Bright Young Things.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 50.9079, -1.4420
- District
- Southampton
- Parish
- Southampton, unparished area
- Postcode
- SO15 0HH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Southampton Test
- Established
- 1955
- Nearest railway station
- Millbrook — 0.7 km
- Official site
- www.ss-shieldhall.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7394377 (CC0)
- wikipedia: SS Shieldhall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is SS Shieldhall?
- SS Shieldhall is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SO15 0HH), in the parish of Southampton, unparished area.
- What is SS Shieldhall?
- SS Shieldhall in England South East, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to SS Shieldhall?
- The nearest railway station is Millbrook, about 0.7 km away. Drivers can use postcode SO15 0HH.
- When was SS Shieldhall built?
- Built or established in 1955.
- Who owns SS Shieldhall?
- SS Shieldhall is owned by | registry = {{Flag icon|United Kingdom|civil}} Glasgow.
- Is SS Shieldhall a protected site?
- Yes — SS Shieldhall is part of the The New Forest SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the New Forest Ramsar wetland.
- How do I get to SS Shieldhall?
- The nearest railway station is Millbrook, about 0.7 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SO15 0HH.