2nd June 1940 Freshwater
Freshwater sails to Dunkirk.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Freshwater sails to Dunkirk.
War looms for the Humber paddle steamers Tattershall Castle, Wingfield Castle and Killingholme.
What have the Woolwich ferries Squires, Gordon, Will Crooks and John Benn, the Southern Railway’s Freshwater and the GSN’s Crested Eagle all got in common?
First day of the 1960 season for Monarch.
Medway Queen on charter for filming at Herne Bay.
Monday 29th May 1967 Embassy had just arrived at Van Heyghen Brothers’s scrapyard in Ghent.
Queen of the South made her first public sailing from Tower Pier to Greenwich, Gravesend, Southend and Herne Bay.
First day of the season for Maid of the Loch.
Second day of the season for the newly built Maid of the Loch.
Waverley on charter to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Caledonia on charter for a “Kirk Cruise”.
Second day of the season for Royal Eagle.
Maid of the Loch runs inaugural cruise for invited guests.
Consul’s first weekend in service from Weymouth in the 1961 season.
A bit of a kerfuffle in the offing around Cosens’s Albert Victor.
Princess Elizabeth goes compass correcting.
Princess Elizabeth positioned from Plymouth following her dry-docking in readiness to start her season at Torquay.
Devonia sails from Bristol to Brighton in just under 28 hours.
The new Lorna Doone’s inaugural cruise from Bournemouth with invited guest
Consul and Princess Elizabeth both undergoing final preparations for starting their seasons running from Weymouth this Whitsun weekend in competition.
Running trials with the DTP, the then licencing authority for issuing the Passenger Certificates.
Cargo paddle steamer Lord Elgin sails off for the scrapyard.
Consul was the last of Cosens’s paddle steamers to be returned to service after the Second World War.
Funeral of Captain Rawle.
P & A Campbell’s Glen Gower and Waverley set from from Cardiff for Brighton.
Jeanie Deans on charter to the Scottish Locomotive Preservation Fund for a rare trip to Ardrishaig.
Press cruise for the brand new Mercury and Caledonia.
Thames Estuary cruise from Chatham.
Princess Elizabeth arrives at Torquay for the first time.
Cardiff Queen rostered for the Cardiff/Weston ferry.