Builders: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd 1936
Propulsion type: 12 cylinder, twin screw motor vessel
Owners: Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co, P & A Campbell Ltd (Townsend Ferries)
Service dates: 1936 - 75
Tonnage: Gross 314
Comments:
This motor vessel was small by North Wales standards at 314 grt and was originally to be named St Tysilio. She was launched as St Silio and renamed St Trillo in 1945 and it is in this guise that she is probably best remembered. She was engined by Crossleys of Stockport with 600 bhp and 13 knots at her disposal. Built with twin funnels for appearance, the forward one was a dummy and in my humble opinion she would have looked better with a single, slightly larger funnel. Her accommodation was adequate for 568 passengers. She initially sailed from Llandudno but also made excursion cruises along the Manchester Ship Canal. When the Liverpool company was dissolved in 1962 she was sold to Campbell's for continued service from North Wales and occasionally on the Bristol Channel. She was withdrawn in 1969 and plans to use her in a static role did not materialise and she was broken up in 1975 in Dublin.