13th September 1963 Consul
Paddle Steamer Consul arrived on the Thames on 14th September 1963 but things didn’t quite go to plan.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Paddle Steamer Consul arrived on the Thames on 14th September 1963 but things didn’t quite go to plan.
The draw took place at the end of the live YouTube broadcast on Friday 26 November 2021.
Caledonia sold to Bass Charrington for a new static career on the Thames.
In November 1937 Red Funnel’s Mauretania ex Queen renamed Corfe Castle.
How has the season been for the Swiss paddle steamers?
Bournemouth Echo expands on its announcement the previous day that Bournemouth Queen was to be withdrawn.
Bad weather delayed Waverley’s arrival resulting in the cancellation of the first two sailings of the weekend.
Waverley’s last week of the 2001 Thames season.
Waverley sails from Tilbury to Chatham.
What was Glen Gower doing during the summer of 1954?
Recalling the first seven days of the 2001 season on the Thames.
Waverley sails to Clacton and Tilbury and visits the Thames Forts.
On Saturday 29th September 1973 the PSPS chartered Waverley for a “Five Lochs Cruise”. It was to be Waverley’s final month in service with Caledonian MacBrayne.
Waverley’s first call at Harwich’s Halfpenny Pier.
PS Mountaineer, the first ship ordered by David Hutcheson & Company, grounded on 27th September 1889.
Waverley’s final sailings on the Solent before departing for the Thames.
What was Monarch doing during a week in August 1960?
Princess Elizabeth’s last trip of the season from Torquay to Lyme Regis on 15th September 1960.
Clydebuilt ships reunited. Steamship Shieldhall and Waverley meet in the Solent.
The first ever PSPS Charter.
What sort of day trips were offered by the paddle steamers running from Bournemouth in the summer of 1953?
The second weekend on the Solent saw Waverley’s anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight and a cruise to Weymouth.
The first three days of Waverley’s south coast sailings from Weymouth and Southampton.
How are the Swiss paddle steamers manned and what is the route to becoming a captain?
Waverley’s 2001 Clyde sailing season comes to an end.
The middle weekend of August visit several ports, including Ardrishaig for the first time in 20 years.
Waverley carried a full capacity of over nine hundred passengers to Dunoon for the annual Cowal Games.
Excursions from the east coast piers of the Isle of Wight to Bournemouth.
On Thursday 19th August 1926 Columba was scheduled to leave Glasgow on the “Royal Route” for Rothesay, Colintraive, Tighnabruaich, Tarbet and Ardrishaig.
Michael Girvan of Skyrise Aerial Media has kindly provided a video and photographic record of Waverley’s arrival in to Ardrishaig after an absence of 20 years.