Category: Musings

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

More Paddle Steamers Please

If the Swiss can do it why can’t we?

13th July 1947 Princess Elizabeth

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.

Last Clyde Season of the ‘Jeanie Deans’

Fifty summers ago, in 1964, there were still four paddle steamers operating on the Clyde, the Jeanie Deans, Waverley, Caledonia and Talisman.