title: PS Eleanor (1873)
text: # PS Eleanor (1873)
  
  PS Eleanor was a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1873 to 1881.
  
  ## History
  
  She was built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the London and North Western Railway in 1873. She may have been named after Eleanor Moon (1847-59), the eldest daughter of the company's then chairman, Richard Moon, and was built specifically for the Greenore route that Moon had $championed.^{:340,342,482}$
  
  She ran aground on 27 January 1881 at Leestone Point, Kilkeel, Ireland during a dense fog. The railway attempted to salvage her but severe gales in the following weeks completed her $destruction.^{:341}$ Within the year, the railway company had replaced her with a new paddle steamer of the same name, Eleanor.
  
  