Kingswear Castle Britain's last steam powered river paddle steamer
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Kingswear Castle
Kingswear Castle sails on the River Dart each summer and is operated on behalf of the Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust by the Dartmouth Steam Railway and River Boat Company.
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History of
Kingswear Castle
Built in 1924 for service on the River Dart in Devon between Dartmouth and Totnes, Kingswear Castle was withdrawn in 1965.
Purchased by volunteers in 1967 who painstakingly restored her to operating condition over ten years, entering service on the Medway and the Thames in 1985.
In 2012 she returned home to the Dart.
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Kingswear Castle
18th May 2021:
KC Returns to Service
Kingswear Castle returned to service on Tuesday 18th May 2021 taking the 12.15pm harbour cruise from Dartmouth on which she carried almost 80 passengers. The first steam train of the
11th May 2021:
KC Passenger Certificates Renewed
The MCA attended Kingswear Castle on Tuesday 12th May 2021 for her running trials and examined and monitored the testing of everything on the ship for the renewal of her
9th May 2021:
PSPS Wessex Branch Charter of KC
The Wessex Branch are organising an up river fund raising evening cruise in association with the Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust in aid of Kingswear Castle’s Rebuild Appeal on the
June 2021:
Paddle Steamer Crested Eagle
Founded in the 18th century White’s Shipyard at Cowes on the Isle of Wight expanded substantially under the management of John Samuel White in the 19th century and in the
May 2021:
Captain Albert Robson Symes
In late May 1901 there was a little bit of a kerfuffle in the offing in Weymouth with the focus falling on Cosens’s Albert Victor. Some money had been stolen
April 2021:
Paddle Steamer Kenilworth
At her annual dry-docking in the run up to the 1936 season the Board of Trade started to make noises about the amount of work which would be needed to
March 2021:
Winston Megoran 1913 – 1971
1st March 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the death of marine artist, yachtsman, PSPS member and my Dad Winston Megoran. Of the several thousand water colours, oil paintings, etchings,
