title: PS Earl of Ulster (1878)
text: # PS Earl of Ulster (1878)
  
  PS Earl of Ulster was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1878 to 1894.
  
  ## History
  
  She operated on services from Fleetwood to Belfast.
  
  On 30 June 1883, she was involved in a collision off the Isle of Man with the schooner Susanna.
  
  On 12 March 1889, she collided with the Holywood Lighthouse in Belfast Lough and destroyed it.
  
  After being sold to A M Carlisle in 1894, Earl of Ulster passed into the ownership of J McCausland of Portaferry and was briefly put into service on Strangford Lough running excursion trips for one season before being broken up.
  
  