28th February 1968 Cardiff Queen
Cardiff Queen towed from Barry to Newport.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Cardiff Queen towed from Barry to Newport.
Dextrous sets off from her builders on the Clyde for Portsmouth.
Lucy Ashton was now laid up with the boiler blown down in Bowling Harbour.
Preparation for Cardiff Queen’s launch and move to Fairfield’s fitting out basin at Govan.
Monarch arrived in Milford Haven having left Weymouth early the day before under tow for her passage along the Dorset, Devon and Cornish coasts before crossing the Bristol Channel past Lundy Island.
Lucy Ashton’s funnel painted buff with a black top.
Caledonia on the slipway at Lamont’s Shipyard Port Glasgow.
HMS Aristocrat ex Talisman is inspected.
Cargo paddle steamer Aberdare launched at William Denny’s Clyde shipyard.
After a windy voyage Vecta arrives in Cardiff from Weymouth
The news was now out that Cosens’s first twin funnelled Monarch was to be sold for scrap.
Vecta leaves Weymouth after a refit by Cosens bound for Cardiff.
Captain Townsend buys Swanage Queen.
Jeremiah Dwyer is looking to buy a paddle steamer.
Dresden paddle steamers damaged in bombing raids.
Lincoln Castle’s last voyage in steam.
Visit to Wellman Robey to check on progress with KC’s new boiler.
Crew training for the new radar set which had been installed aboard Humber paddle steamer Tattershall Castle.
Eppleton Hall was off the coast of Mexico steaming north west towards Manzanillo.
The paddle steamer Flamer endures a difficult passage from Guernsey to Weymouth in a gale.
How often did the Humber paddle steamer ferry service run between Hull and new Holland in the winter of 1959/60?
Captain Shippick writes another letter to the Bournemouth Echo.
Monarch’s tug Salvonia leaves Weymouth without her.
Balmoral arrives at Weymouth for refit work by Cosens.
Consul’s last voyage in steam from Weymouth to Dartmouth.
Pack ice on the Humber makes difficulties for the Hull/New Holland ferries.
Medway Queen in the Nelson Dock at Rothehithe.
Victoria one week after arriving in the Southampton scrapyard.
Captain John Hayward’s career on Cunard liners, ocean salvage vessels and a paddle steamer.
Monarch towed from her berth in the Weymouth Backwater and down the harbour to the Pleasure Pier to await the sea-going tug to tow her to the scrapyard in Ireland.