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PS Ruby

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PS Ruby is the name of several ships:

  • PS Ruby (1841), the first iron built paddle steamer in service from the English mainland to the Isle of Wight, see Red Funnel
  • PS Ruby (1861), a fast Clyde passenger steamer, later a Civil War blockade runner[1]
  • PS Ruby (1907), a historic paddle steamer preserved at Wentworth on the Murray River in Australia


References

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  1. ^ Graham, Eric J. (2006). Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War. Edinburgh: Birlinn. p. 198. ISBN 9781841584249.