World of Ships – May 2018

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PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 5 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Great Britain .......................... 6 Waverley, Kin ...

6 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers CHAPTER ONE GREAT BRITAIN T he paddle steamer made a debut in British waters in 1812, just ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 7 the Humber as far back as Roman times, and two of the final steam trio surv ...

8 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers OWNER Waverley Steam Navigation Company BUILT 1947 by A. and J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 9 Passengers wait to board Waverley at Largs during one of the vessel’s regul ...

10 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers Waverley, makes a magnificent spectacle on a Clyde sailing as she has appeared since being ...

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12 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers Waverley’s original boiler, re-tubed in 1976, was replaced in Spring 1981 by a Babcock Ste ...

Kingswear Castle on the river Medway, passing one-time Elizabethan Fortress Upnor Castle. PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I Worl ...

14 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers three years of negotiations to persuade the trustees that we have the marine expertise and ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 15 Maid of the Loch at Balloch in (Nicholas Leach) Maid of the Loch, last i ...

16 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers and Blackmore provided a two-cylinder compound diagonal engine that was little different i ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 17 vandalised hulk, with the exterior repainted and made weatherproof, along ...

18 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers BUILT 1934 by Sir William Gray and Co, West Hartlepool for the London and North Eastern Ra ...

PADDLE STEAMERS Paddle Steamers I World of Ships I 19 trucks and towed down to the ferries’ car decks, from where the contents w ...

20 I World of Ships I Paddle Steamers or used for excursions which reached their peak at weekends from the 1950s, when one of th ...