History
Name	PS Admiral Moorsom
Namesake	Admiral Robert Moorsom (1760-1835), Royal Navy officer
Owner	London and North Western Railway
Operator	London and North Western Railway
Port of registry
Route	Holyhead, Wales - Dublin, Ireland
Builder	Barclay Curle, Glasgow, Scotland
Yard number	83
Launched	September 1860
Fate	Sunk in collision 15 January 1885
General characteristics
Tonnage	794  gross register tons (GRT)
Length	219.3 ft (66.8 m)
Beam	30.2 ft (9.2 m)
Draught	15.1 ft (4.6 m)

PS Admiral Moorsom was a passenger paddle steamer operated by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) from 1860 to 1885. ^[1]

History

Admiral Moorsom was built by Barclay Curle of Glasgow, Scotland, and launched in 1860. She may have been named after Vice-Admiral Constantine Moorsom, who was the LNWR director responsible for steamships, or after his father Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom (1760-1835), an officer of the Royal Navy who served in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

On 15 November 1862, she collided with RMS Ulster in the Irish Sea off Holyhead, Anglesey and was severely damaged. RMS Ulster towed her in to Holyhead. ^[2] She was run into by the American sailing ship Santa Clara in the Irish Sea off Arklow, County Wicklow, on 15 January 1885 and sank. Twenty-five people were rescued by Santa Clara and five by the steamship Falcon, but five people were lost. Admiral Moorsom was on a voyage from Dublin to Holyhead, Anglesey. ^{[3] [4]}

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