What sort of day trips were offered by the paddle steamers running from Bournemouth in the summer of 1953?
Day Trips from Bournemouth 1953
Embassy entering Lulworth Cove 1953.
6th-12th July 1953 Cardiff Queen
Cardiff Queen with Balmoral in the background off the Isle of Wight.
A week on the Cardiff Queen operating on the Sussex Coast.
12th July 1953 Bournemouth Pier
Monarch approaching Bournemouth Pier with Hengistbury Head and the Isle of Wight in the background.
Choice of afternoon cruises from Bournemouth Pier on three different paddle steamers.
16th June 1953 Bristol Queen
Bristol Queen at the 1953 Spithead Review and fitted with radar.
Bristol Queen arrives back in Southampton at 1.10am after spending the previous day on charter for the Spithead Naval Review.
9th June 1953 Emperor of India
Emperor of India first trips of the season.
26th May 1953 Maid of the Loch
Leaving Inversnaid during her second last season operating on the loch in 1980.
Second day of the season for the newly built Maid of the Loch.
22nd May 1953 Maid of the Loch
Maid of the Loch A/S Ardlui.
Maid of the Loch runs inaugural cruise for invited guests.
4th May 1953 Maid of the Loch
Maid of the Loch being built on the slipway at Balloch, 1952.
Maid of the Loch runs trials.
11th March 1953 Maid of Ashton
Maid of Argyll.
Maid of Ashton in the fitting out basin at Yarrow’s Clyde shipyard.
1st February 1953 Victoria
Victoria one week after arriving in the Southampton scrapyard.
22nd January 1953 Victoria
Victoria backing out of Weymouth Harbour.
On Thursday 22nd January 1953 Victoria left Weymouth for the last time for the scrapyard at Southampton.
25th December 1953 Embassy
Embassy 21st July 1952.
Embassy started to sink in Weymouth Harbour on Christmas Day.
1st October 1953 Embassy
Embassy 21st July 1952.
Last trips of the season for Embassy.
4th September 1953 Consul, Embassy and Empress
Empress in Lulworth Cove sometime between 1947 and 1953.
Two different paddle steamers in Lulworth Cove and visits to a warship.
18th August 1953 Bournemouth
Embassy, Monarch, Emperor of India A/S Poole September 1951.
On Tuesday 18th August 1953 you could have had the opportunity to take any of 15 departures from Bournemouth Pier on any one of four different paddle steamers.
5th May 1953 Monarch
Monarch in dry-dock at Southampton 5th May 1953.
Monarch pictured in drydock at Southampton 5th May 1953.