16th June 1953 Bristol Queen
Bristol Queen arrives back in Southampton at 1.10am after spending the previous day on charter for the Spithead Naval Review.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Bristol Queen arrives back in Southampton at 1.10am after spending the previous day on charter for the Spithead Naval Review.
First trip of the 1937 season for Duke of Devonshire.
One hour cruise down the river on a Humber paddle steamer and view the docks.
Empress Queen sails from Avonmouth to Bristol following an accident the previous day.
Saturday 12th June was the first day of the 1948 season for Cardiff Queen.
Empress Queen at her builder’s yard in Troon being converted back to an excursion steamer for P & A Campbell.
Gracie Fields offers her first public sailing.
What were the eleven South Coast paddle steamers doing on Thursday 9th June 1960?
Emperor of India first trips of the season.
Last day in service for Marchioness of Lorne.
Preparations well in hand for the inaugural cruise of Princess Mary.
Sussex Queen scheduled second day of her 1960 season on the Sussex Coast.
First trips of the season on the Cardiff Weston ferry service for Duchess of Devonshire.
On Sunday 3rd June 1973 Waverley was off service repairing a burst boiler tube.
Freshwater sails to Dunkirk.
War looms for the Humber paddle steamers Tattershall Castle, Wingfield Castle and Killingholme.
What have the Woolwich ferries Squires, Gordon, Will Crooks and John Benn, the Southern Railway’s Freshwater and the GSN’s Crested Eagle all got in common?
First day of the 1960 season for Monarch.
Medway Queen on charter for filming at Herne Bay.
Monday 29th May 1967 Embassy had just arrived at Van Heyghen Brothers’s scrapyard in Ghent.
Queen of the South made her first public sailing from Tower Pier to Greenwich, Gravesend, Southend and Herne Bay.
First day of the season for Maid of the Loch.
Second day of the season for the newly built Maid of the Loch.
Waverley on charter to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Caledonia on charter for a “Kirk Cruise”.
Second day of the season for Royal Eagle.
Maid of the Loch runs inaugural cruise for invited guests.
Consul’s first weekend in service from Weymouth in the 1961 season.
A bit of a kerfuffle in the offing around Cosens’s Albert Victor.
First day of the 2021 season for Kingswear Castle.