Embassy started to sink in Weymouth Harbour on Christmas Day.
25th December 1953 Embassy

Embassy 21st July 1952.
Embassy 21st July 1952.
Embassy started to sink in Weymouth Harbour on Christmas Day.
Embassy on a trip round Portland Harbour circa 1949.
Why was Embassy in steam in December 1949?
Rochester Queen.
Might Rochester Queen come to sail from Bournemouth?
Bournemouth Queen.
Last day of the season for Bournemouth Queen.
Duchess of Norfolk (1911 - 1967).
Take a paddle steamer between Portsmouth and Ryde in October 1922.
Embassy 21st July 1952.
Last trips of the season for Embassy.
Embassy alongside in the Weymouth Backwater 1962.
PS Embassy’s sails frim Poole to Weymouth to layup for the winter.
Embassy alongside Swanage Pier in 1958 under the command of Captain Rawle.
Capt Philip St Barbe Rawle’s last Sunday in command of Embassy.
Empress in Lulworth Cove sometime between 1947 and 1953.
Two different paddle steamers in Lulworth Cove and visits to a warship.
Embassy 7th August 1963.
On Wednesday 7th August 1963 Embassy ran a day trip from Poole via Bournemouth to Yarmouth and Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Princess Elizabeth arriving at Shanklin Pier.
Paddle steamer trips from Bournemouth Wednesday 16th July 1947..
Embassy aground in Poole Harbour 9th July 1948.
9th July 1948 Embassy aground in Poole Harbour.
Consul alongside Bournemouth Pier.
Consul’s first sailing of the season from Weymouth to Swanage and Bournemouth.
Embassy arriving at Bournemouth Pier in 1962.
Embassy’s first day of the 1960 season.
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.
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.
Embassy passing though Weymouth Town Bridge for the last time 3rd May 1967.
Monday 29th May 1967 Embassy alongside at Van Heyghen Brothers’s scrapyard in Ghent.
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