12th August 1935 Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle scheduled to sail from from London to Margate.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Golden Eagle scheduled to sail from from London to Margate.
Killingholme scheduled for an excursion from Grimsby to Spurn Head.
Majestic sails from Bournemouth for a Spithead Naval Review.
Balmoral runs her inaugural cruise for invited guests from Southampton.
First trip of the season by Consul to Totland Bay, Isle of Wight.
Consul’s first sailing of the season from Weymouth to Swanage and Bournemouth.
Embassy’s first day of the 1960 season.
On Monday 1st July 1935 Golden Eagle was rostered to run from Tower Pier to Clacton.
What was the secret of the success of local paddle steamer trips from Weymouth?
P & A Campbell’s Easter paddle steamer sailings 1958.
Find out a little more about Southwold Belle and the “Belle” fleet.
Monarch rescues two almost naked men from a dinghy called Dumbo off the Old Harry Rocks in Poole Bay.
Embassy runs a trip from Bournemouth & Swanage to view the American nuclear submarine Nautilus at Portland.
Consul runs trips to view the American nuclear powered submarine USS Skipjack.
Caledonia replaces Waverley on the up river cruise from Largs to Glasgow.
How did Swanage Queen get on at Bournemouth in 1961 and what was her legacy?
First day in service of Lincoln Castle.
Day trip on Embassy from Bournemouth to Yarmouth Isle of Wight.
Jeanie Deans replaced Queen Mary II on the “Down the River” cruise from Glasgow.
Whippingham returns to Portsmouth after her dry-docking at Southampton.
Monarch pictured in drydock at Southampton 5th May 1953.
Ryde ran a special cruise from Southsea to meet round the world yachtsman Alec Rose in 1968.
Read this letter from P & A Campbell management to PW 1968.
If the Swiss can do it why can’t we?
A trip on the Ammersee aboard Europe’s latest paddler Herrsching built as recently as 2002.
A trip on the paddler Diessen on the Ammersee near Munich.
Most often associated with the Southampton to Cowes ferry and pottering about in the Solent, the Lizzie hit excursion peaks just after the Second World War.
Fifty summers ago, in 1964, there were still four paddle steamers operating on the Clyde, the Jeanie Deans, Waverley, Caledonia and Talisman.