11th February 1948 Tattershall Castle
Crew training for the new radar set which had been installed aboard Humber paddle steamer Tattershall Castle.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
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.
Duchess of Argyll in the scrapyard at Newhaven.
Consul on the slipway at Weymouth for survey by the Board of Trade.
Two enthusiasts write to the Bournemouth Echo in support of Monarch and paddle steamer sailings to Swanage.
Cosens’s last master, Capt John Ililffe, left Cosens employ in February 1967 following the announcement of the withdrawal of PS Embassy.
Bournemouth Echo announces Monarch has been sold and the efforts of the PSPS to save her.
Emperor of India arrives in Belgium for breaking up.
Britannia returned to dry-dock. Why did they need to do that?
Royal Daffodil prepared for her launch the following day.
On Thursday 22nd January 1953 Victoria left Weymouth for the last time for the scrapyard at Southampton.
The newly formed PSPS swings into action to save Monarch.
Framing almost complete in the construction of Ryde at the Clyde yard of Denny of Dumbarton.
On Saturday 19th January 1963, Tattershall Castle broke free from her Humber moorings in a storm.
First day out in the Pacific for Eppleton Hall.
Dorset Evening Echo reports that Monarch has been put up for sale.
Britannia and Ravenswood leave Charles Hill’s drydock at Bristol.
HMS Aristocrat ex Talisman on duty providing anti-aircraft cover on the Thames for convoys.
Bristol Queen rammed by the Liberian registered tanker Geodor.