Category: A Peep into the Past

Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle

Autumn 1965

Embassy’s first 1965 cruise | Princess Elizabeth charter trip to Torquay | Clyde and Loch Lomond | White Funnel notes

Summer 1965

From the Chairman | Wessex Branch | Portsmouth paddlers | Hull – New Holland ferry steamers | Notes on Clyde steamers | White Funnel notes

Spring 1965

Consul moves again | Portsmouth paddlers | River Dart Steamboat Co. | Clyde notes | Queensferry passage ferries | London & Home Counties Branch

Winter 1964

Blackheath Rally | Clyde notes | White Funnel news | Bristol Channel Branch | Weymouth notes

Autumn 1964

Round the Isle of Wight | Medway Queen | River Dart Steamboat Company | The road to the Isle, 1964 | Scottish notes | Weymouth notes | Portsmouth paddlers

Summer 1964

White Funnel news | Cosens & Co. | South coast & continental steamers | Scottish notes | London & Home Counties Branch | Wessex Branch

Spring 1964

From the Chairman | Alumchine in retrospect | Portsmouth paddlers | River Dart Steamboat Co. Ltd. | Scottish notes

Winter 1963

Farewell Medway Queen | Save the Medway Queen appeal | Clyde paddle steamers | Consul returns to the Thames | White Funnel news

Autumn 1963

Woolwich paddle ferries farewell | White Funnel news | Portsmouth paddlers | Scottish notes | Consul

Summer 1963

The “Alumchine” project | White Funnel news | Scottish notes | Humber paddlers | Cosens & Co.

Spring 1963

The Society’s own paddler | Scottish notes | Portsmouth paddlers | Cosens & Co. | White Funnel news | Don’t go into the steamship business

Winter 1962

Exhibition on Southend Pier | PS Ryde | Princess Elizabeth | Medway Queen’s poor season | White Funnel season | Scottish notes

Autumn 1962

Visit to Medway Queen | Portsmouth paddlers | PS Swanage Queen | Clyde steamers | River Dart steamers

Summer 1962

Humber ferry vessels | Weymouth Company move house | Clyde notes | White Funnel steamer notes | Controversy in Switzerland

Spring 1962

River Dart Steamboat Company | White Funnel steamer report | London & Home Counties Branch news | Bristol Channel Branch news | Clyde notes & news | Neyland ferry report | Torbay Steamers Ltd.

Winter 1961

Wessex Branch inaugural meeting | London & Home Counties Branch visit Woolwich | White Funnel fleet | Clyde paddlers | Embassy Golden Jubilee | Torbay steamers | Swanage Queen for sale

Autumn 1961

Whit Monday excursion | Dart visit | News from the Clyde | London & Home Counties Branch | Paddle Tug John H Amos | Torbay steamers

Summer 1961

London & Home Counties Branch formed | Portsmouth paddlers | Cosen’s depleted fleet | Clyde Easter sailings | Sussex Queen

Spring 1961

Steadily increasing membership | Bristol Branch formed | Caledonia still in commission | Campbell fleet now three | Medway Queen’s season | Monarch to be scrapped

Winter 1960

Royal occasion | Laid up on the River Dart | John Betjeman becomes patron | Clyde paddle steamers

Autumn 1960

Still a future for Portsmouth Paddlers | Clyde fleet busy | First PSPS outing

Summer 1960

The first edition of Paddle Wheels | Skipper swop for Cosens | White Funnel news | Torbay steamers overcome opposition