28th November 1951 Lorna Doone
Red Funnel’s Lorna Doone slipped at Southampton.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Red Funnel’s Lorna Doone slipped at Southampton.
Diver summoned to retrieve Cleethorpes’s forward port gangway door from the bottom.
Barry Railway Company sent out a press release announcing their intention to run passenger steamers on the Bristol Channel.
Queen of the South for sale.
On her first day out from Mindello Eppleton Hall loses her vacuum.
Captain Defrates has a lodger.
Alumchine break-in.
The paddle steamer Cleethorpes left her builders yard in Dundee for the Humber.
Old John makes things happen for Eppleton Hall moored in Mindello Harbour.
Eppleton Hall alongside at Mindello in the Cape Verde Islands.
Thursday 17th November 1966 was Talisman’s last day in service.
Captain William Cosens, brother of Captain Joseph Cosens founder of Cosens & Co, buried in Melcombe Regis.
Sandown leaves Weymouth for Portsmouth.
Jeanie Deans ties up on buoys at Chatham off Thunderbolt Pier.
Bristol Queen arrives in Weymouth.
Having already topped up her bunkers at Holyhead and Falmouth on the way, Jeanie Deans makes a call at Southampton to top them up once again.
On Monday 11th November 1963 Caledonia came close to being blown ashore on the rocks off Millport after damaging her port paddle wheel.
Jeanie Deans sets off from Holyhead for Falmouth.
Brian Jackson, one of the last remaining crew members of a Cosens’ paddle steamer, has died.
Jeanie Deans puts into Holyhead for bunkers.
Jeanie Deans stormbound off the Isle of Man.
Jeanie Deans hove to off the Isle of Man.
Jeanie Deans takes on water at Stranraer.
Jeanie Deans leaves the Clyde.
Jeanie Deans takes on fuel and it does not go well.
Jeanie Deans runs trials on the Clyde.
Jeanie Deans shifts ship to the fitting out basin at Lamont’s Shipyard Port Glasgow.
We travel up from Weymouth to Port Glasgow to join Jeanie Deans.
Red Funnel’s Solent Queen arrived at the scrapyard of T W Ward at Grays in Essex.
Princess Beatrice rammed by Royal Mail Line’s Atrato at Southampton.