A plethora of paddle steamers at Bournemouth.
31st July 1939 Bournemouth
Princess Elizabeth pictured 1938 or 1939.
16th July 1947 Embassy, Monarch and Princess Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth arriving at Shanklin Pier.
Paddle steamer trips from Bournemouth Wednesday 16th July 1947.
9th July 1948 Embassy
Embassy aground in Poole Harbour 9th July 1948.
9th July 1948 Embassy aground in Poole Harbour.
25th June 1958 Embassy
Embassy 21st August 1958.
Strong winds cause Embassy’s passengers to return from Yarmouth to Lymington on the BR car ferry and then on to Bournemouth and Swanage by train.
9th June 1960 South Coast Snapshot
Monarch.
What were the eleven South Coast paddle steamers doing on Thursday 9th June 1960?
5th June 1965 Embassy
Embassy arriving at Bournemouth 1965.
PSPS chartered Embassy for a trip from Weymouth to Yarmouth with, for any who wanted, an extension round the Isle of Wight.
29th May 1967 Embassy
Embassy passing though Weymouth Town Bridge for the last time 3rd May 1967.
Monday 29th May 1967 Embassy had just arrived at Van Heyghen Brothers’s scrapyard in Ghent.
19th April 1966 Embassy
Embassy backing out from Bournemouth in 1966.
Embassy on the Admiralty slipway at Portland.
28th March 1948 Embassy
Embassy pictured in 1947.
Easter 1948 at Bournemouth.
25th December 1953 Embassy
Embassy 21st July 1952.
Embassy started to sink in Weymouth Harbour on Christmas Day.
8th December 1949 Embassy
Embassy on a trip round Portland Harbour circa 1949.
Why was Embassy in steam in December 1949?
27th October 1955 Captain Baker’s Plans
Rochester Queen.
Might Rochester Queen come to sail from Bournemouth?
23rd October 1947 Bournemouth Queen
Bournemouth Queen.
Last day of the season for Bournemouth Queen.
10th October 1922 Portsmouth/Ryde
Duchess of Norfolk (1911 - 1967).
Take a paddle steamer between Portsmouth and Ryde in October 1922.
1st October 1953 Embassy
Embassy 21st July 1952.
Last trips of the season for Embassy.
27th September 1963 Embassy
Embassy alongside in the Weymouth Backwater 1962.
PS Embassy’s sails frim Poole to Weymouth to layup for the winter.
13th September 1959 Captain Phillip Rawle
Embassy alongside Swanage Pier in 1958 under the command of Captain Rawle.
Capt Philip St Barbe Rawle’s last Sunday in command of 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.
4th July 1961 Consul
Consul alongside Bournemouth Pier.
Consul’s first sailing of the season from Weymouth to Swanage and Bournemouth.
2nd July 1960 Embassy
Embassy arriving at Bournemouth Pier in 1962.
Embassy’s first day of the 1960 season.
Summer 1977
- Waverley scores Mersey triumph
- Quiet end for the Poole Belle
- London & Home Counties Branch
- Wessex Branch
Autumn 1971
- Historic views from the Isle of Wight
- Taming of the Loch Lomond monster for a day
- A ship fit for a Queen
- Waverley
- MacBraynes TS King George V (1926)
- Blackheath centenary
Summer 1967
- PS Kingswear Castle to be purchased by Society
- PS Queen of the South
- Scottish notes
- White Funnel notes
- A salty tale
- Weymouth
- Six Rhine paddlers remain
Spring 1967
- From the Chairman
- The annual meeting
- Bristol Channel Branch
- Scottish notes
- Humber paddlers
- The Portsmouth paddler
- The Swiss steamer scene
Summer 1966
- Scottish notes
- White Funnel notes
- PS Queen of the South
- Portsmouth paddlers
- Cosens & Co.
- Subscriptions
Winter 1965
- From the Chairman
- PS Jeanie Deans
- Arrival of the Medway Queen
- Cosens & Co.
- Princess Elizabeth
- Clyde notes
- White Funnel news