Tag: Wingfield Castle

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

Wingfield Castle Update July 2021

Hartlepool Borough Council allocates £4 million for the restoration of Wingfield Castle.

14th June 1959 Humber Paddle Steamers

One hour cruise down the river on a Humber paddle steamer and view the docks.

1st June 1940 Humber Paddle Steamers

War looms for the Humber paddle steamers Tattershall Castle, Wingfield Castle and Killingholme.

14th March 1974 Wingfield Castle

Wingfield Castle made her last voyage in steam on Thursday 14th March 1974.

7th March 1972 Humber Paddle Steamers

Why were all the Hull/New Holland paddle steamer ferries withdrawn from service for much of February and on into early March 1972?

Summer 1990

Easter snow | Medway Queen report | Find for historical trust | Wingfield Castle | A Vice-President’s notebook | And 50 years ago…

Spring 1989

Record number of teddy bears sail on Balmoral | Wingfield Castle progress | Lincoln Castle opens in Grimsby | Queen Mary | A new Commodore Club ticket | Branch news | And 50 years ago…

Spring 1986

Waverley in Irish Waters | Wingfield Castle move | By paddler to Budapest | Donald Rose | Medway Queen

Spring 1976

£45,000 appeal is launched | Kingswear Castle report | Tattershall Castle’s new Thames role | Loch Lomond

Summer 1974

Cash boost for Waverley | Kingswear Castle | At Rochester | South Coast | Humber | Afloat with PSPS

Spring 1974

Waverley on the slip | What the members think | Bristol Channel | New look on the Humber | Straits of Dover | Kingswear Castle report

Winter 1973

Waverley offered to Society | Charters 1973 | Kingswear Castle report | Right round Lyme Bay, 1923

Autumn 1973

Paddling to Goole | Joint Thames charter | Maid of the Loch | Paddler to steam after six years | Gallant band’s work

Autumn 1972

From the Chairman | From John Betjeman, Patron PSPS | Happy Birthday Waverley | Humber | Bristol Channel | Blackheath Rally | Paddling to Ormidale

Winter 1969

PSPS 10th anniversary celebration | PS Ryde | Compton Castle | Humber ferries | In European waters

Summer 1968

Society’s future – and you! | Society membership | Bristol Channel Branch | Cleddau Queen loses her paddles | The Humber paddlers | Scottish news

Autumn 1967

Paddling around with Russell Plummer | Farewell to Embassy | Stop press!

Spring 1967

From the Chairman | The annual meeting | Bristol Channel Branch | Scottish notes | Humber paddlers | The Portsmouth paddler | The Swiss steamer scene

Spring 1966

What shall we do with the Kingswear Castle? | Queen of the South | Westward Ho | Portsmouth paddlers | Scottish notes | Humber ferries

Summer 1965

From the Chairman | Wessex Branch | Portsmouth paddlers | Hull – New Holland ferry steamers | Notes on Clyde steamers | White Funnel notes

2018 PSPS AGM – Saturday 17th November

The 2018 AGM takes place on Saturday 17th November.

Wingfield Castle Update

Hartlepool Borough Council launch a new conservation plan for Wingfield Castle.

Wingfield Castle Visit 24th September

Friends of the Maritime Heritage Trust are visiting Hartlepool Maritime Museum and HMS Trincomalee 23rd on Sunday and the maritime archive and Wingfield Castle on Monday 24th September.

PS Wingfield Castle

A few external pictures of PS Wingfield Castle taken on 2nd August 2018.