Tag: Caledonia

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

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

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

Summer 1963

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

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

Spring 1961

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

Autumn 1960

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

10th August 1962 Caledonia

Caledonia replaces Waverley on the up river cruise from Largs to Glasgow.

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.