31st December 1958 Cosens’s Charles Kaile
Cosens & Co’s General Manager Charles Kaile retires after a career with the company spanning 56 years.
Supporting the preservation and operation of paddle steamers Waverley and Kingswear Castle
Cosens & Co’s General Manager Charles Kaile retires after a career with the company spanning 56 years.
25 years ago… Chairman’s comments | Commemorative cruises | Waverley’s Thames Diary | And 50 years ago… Lincoln Castle on special duty | Plus 66 years ago… Newhaven to Boulogne aboard Glen Gower
Queen of the South in to the scrapyard.
Why was Kingswear Castle flying the EU flag?
A second report on Waverley’s 1981 re-boilering with images previously not shared showing the new boiler being fitted.
Queen of the South off Vlissingham.
Queen of the South leaves the Thames under tow for the breakers yard in Antwerp.
Friday 26h December 1902 was the first day of a new winter paddle steamer service between Bournemouth, Boscombe and Swanage.
Embassy started to sink in Weymouth Harbour on Christmas Day.
Paddle Steamer South of Ireland left Cherbourg for Weymouth but failed to arrive.
Bristol Queen still outside Cosens’ workshops in Weymouth Backwater.
Westward Ho arrives back in Cardiff after engine overhaul by Cosens in Weymouth.
Britannia sails down the Irish Sea and reaches Penarth.
Britannia leaves Troon bound for Bristol.
Duchess of Cornwall arrives in Pollock Brown’s scrapyard at Northam, a suburb of Southampton, on the River Itchen.
Bournemouth Queen towed away from Southampton for the scrapyard in Ghent.
Kingswear Castle runs a Santa Special.
Lake Lucerne Paddle Steamer Captain Hans-Peter Mosimann has retired.
Christmas Buffet Lunch Cruise from Strood on Kingswear Castle.
Freshwater at Weymouth preparing for a new job.
Eppleton Hall arrives at Georgetown Guyana having crossed the Atlantic.
Funeral of Captain Alec Campbell who with his brother Peter founded P & A Campbell.
Cleethorpes makes her first trip on the Hull/New Holland ferry service.
Starboard sponson of Shanklin damaged alongside Ryde Pier.
On 10th December 1937 Cosens signed the Bill of Sale to buy the Duke of Devonshire.
Cleethorpes runs trials on the Humber.
Why was Embassy in steam in December 1949?
Britannia towed from Penarth Dock to the breaker’s yard at Newport.
By 6th December 1956 discussions were well in hand in Gourock about converting Jeanie Deans, Jupiter and Waverley from coal to oil firing.
Eppleton Hall reaches the midway point on her Atlantic crossing.