Tag: Embassy

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

Winter 1965

From the Chairman | PS Jeanie Deans | Arrival of the Medway Queen | Cosens & Co. | Princess Elizabeth | Clyde notes | White Funnel news

Autumn 1965

Embassy’s first 1965 cruise | Princess Elizabeth charter trip to Torquay | Clyde and Loch Lomond | White Funnel notes

Winter 1964

Blackheath Rally | Clyde notes | White Funnel news | Bristol Channel Branch | Weymouth notes

Autumn 1964

Round the Isle of Wight | Medway Queen | River Dart Steamboat Company | The road to the Isle, 1964 | Scottish notes | Weymouth notes | Portsmouth paddlers

Summer 1964

White Funnel news | Cosens & Co. | South coast & continental steamers | Scottish notes | London & Home Counties Branch | Wessex Branch

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

Summer 1960

The first edition of Paddle Wheels | Skipper swop for Cosens | White Funnel news | Torbay steamers overcome opposition

17th August 1958 Embassy

Embassy runs a trip from Bournemouth & Swanage to view the American nuclear submarine Nautilus at Portland.

31st July 1963 Embassy

Day trip on Embassy from Bournemouth to Yarmouth Isle of Wight.

PS Embassy 1911 – 1967

Waverley’s cruise on 22 September 2016 celebrated the centenary of Embassy’s launch as Duchess of Norfolk, back in 1911. She became a very significant ship – the last of Cosens & Co’s famous “Buff Funnel Fleet’, and the very last paddle steamer to be based at Bournemouth. Waverley’s route retraced the chief services operated by…
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