Cardiff Queen towed from Barry to Newport.
28th February 1968 Cardiff Queen

Cardiff Queen towed from Barry to Newport.
Forceful, sister of Dextrous, laid up at Queenborough.
Dextrous sets off from her builders on the Clyde for Portsmouth.
Lucy Ashton, circa 1948.
Lucy Ashton was now laid up with the boiler blown down in Bowling Harbour.
The launch of Cardiff Queen.
Preparation for Cardiff Queen’s launch and move to Fairfield’s fitting out basin at Govan.
First Monarch A/S Weymouth Pleasure Pier, February 1950.
Monarch arrived in Milford Haven having left Weymouth early the day before under tow for her passage along the Dorset, Devon and Cornish coasts before crossing the Bristol Channel past Lundy Island.
Lucie Ashton and Talisman at Craigendoran
Lucy Ashton’s funnel painted buff with a black top.
Caledonia.
Caledonia on the slipway at Lamont’s Shipyard Port Glasgow.
HMS Aristocrat ex Talisman off Queenborough.
HMS Aristocrat ex Talisman is inspected.
Cargo paddle steamer Aberdare launched at William Denny’s Clyde shipyard.
Westward Ho ex Vecta A/S Cardiff.
After a windy voyage Vecta arrives in Cardiff from Weymouth
First Monarch towed through Weymouth Town Bridge ,February 1950.
The news was now out that Cosens’s first twin funnelled Monarch was to be sold for scrap.
Vecta on the Bristol Channel September 1965.
Vecta leaves Weymouth after a refit by Cosens bound for Cardiff.
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Swanage Queen at Southampton 22nd June 1961.
Captain Townsend buys Swanage Queen.
Duke of Devonshire approaching Exmouth.
Jeremiah Dwyer is looking to buy a paddle steamer.
Waverley rests at Whitstable on 2nd September 1993.
Illustrations of Waverley meeting Shieldhall and Kingswear Castle and of her first calls at Margate and Walton-on-the-Naze.
PS Dresden in 1946.
Dresden paddle steamers damaged in bombing raids.
Lincoln Castle’s last voyage in steam.
Kingswear Castle leaving Thunderbolt Pier, Chatham.
Visit to Wellman Robey to check on progress with KC’s new boiler.
Tattershall Castle fitted with radar.
Crew training for the new radar set which had been installed aboard Humber paddle steamer Tattershall Castle.
Eppleton Hall working on the Tyne.
Eppleton Hall was off the coast of Mexico steaming north west towards Manzanillo.
Flamer.
The paddle steamer Flamer endures a difficult passage from Guernsey to Weymouth in a gale.
Tattershall Castle with Lincoln Castle in the background off Hull.
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Majestic pictured by expert Weymouth photographer Eric Latcham.
Captain Shippick writes another letter to the Bournemouth Echo.
Monarch A/S Pleasure pier Weymouth, February 1961.
Monarch’s tug Salvonia leaves Weymouth without her.
Balmoral dredging her anchor as she proceeds astern into Weymouth Backwater, Tuesday 4th February 1964.
Balmoral arrives at Weymouth for refit work by Cosens.
Consul, Weymouth 4th February 1965.
Consul’s last voyage in steam from Weymouth to Dartmouth.
Tattershall Castle at Hull with pack ice on the river early 1963.
Pack ice on the Humber makes difficulties for the Hull/New Holland ferries.
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