Daily Archives: 8 August 2026

On Friday 8th August 1952 Cosens’ Victoria was due away from Weymouth (9.30am) for Swanage (12.05pm) and Totland Bay, Isle of Wight (2pm – 4pm) and then back to Swanage

On Monday 8th August 1955 Cardiff Queen ran a super long day trip away from Swansea at 8.30am for Ilfracombe 10.30am and then back across the Bristol Channel to Milford

What was Balmoral — by then the only ship left in the P & A Campbell fleet — doing in August 1976, and how did the weather affect her sailings?

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