Category Archives: News

The first steamship trip of the season on Lake Lucerne was taken by Stadt Luzern on Saturday 18th April sailing away from Lucerne at 11.12 to Fluelen 14.00 and back

Join Kingswear Castle on Tuesday 8th September 2026 for her only planned sailing to Totnes this year. Kingswear Castle will depart Dartmouth at 3.30pm, call at Totnes 5.15pm, due back

Members of the Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust board, along with PSPS Chairman John Allen, visited KC in the Dartmouth shipyard on Thursday 19th March to see how the work

Peter Walker, who died on 29th December 2025, had a three-pronged career as Merchant Navy officer, Accountant and Farmer. Born in 1941 he went to sea as a cadet with

KC was taken out of the water on the Old Mill covered slipway on Thursday 8th January. Work is continuing apace on Phase 2 of her major rebuild. This will

2025 was not a good summer season for the CGN paddle steamers on Lake Geneva with only the diesel electric Italie and Vevey in service during the peak weeks out

The Dampferzeitung magazine has asked the managements of paddle steamers on a number of the Swiss lakes for their assessments of how the 2025 season has panned out for them.

The CGN has published the timetable for October on Lake Geneva. Montreux and Italie are scheduled to be in service every day until Sunday 12th October with Montreux based at

The legendary opera and ballet conductor Richard Bonynge celebrated his 95th birthday on 29th September. His main home, which he shared with his wife until her death in 2010, is

The weather has not been kind to Waverley for her visit to the South West this year. But she did make it to Dartmouth to meet KC on Saturday 30th

The weather has not been kind to Waverley for her visit to the South West this year with fresh to strong winds causing many cancellations. However she did make it

In a “first ever” move Waverley is re-positioning from the Firth of Clyde to the South Coast by circumnavigating much of Great Britain. In this mammoth voyage which will see

Kingswear Castle returned to service for the 2025 season on Tuesday 1st July. Here are a few pics taken aboard on the day. Kingswear Castle is on long term charter

Waverley returned to the Clyde on Thursday June 26th after a highly successful visit to the Mersey and Bristol Channel. She started her main summer season on the Clyde the

Since being withdrawn in 1963 Kingswear Castle’s sister Compton Castle has led a nomadic career finding work initially as static tea rooms at Kingsbridge in the 1960s during which she

On the evening of Saturday 7th June 130 guests, including local dignitaries and many others who have supported the ship in recent years, were aboard for the presentation of the

To add to the CGN’s paddle steamer woes on Lake Geneva this summer on Tuesday 3rd June a crack was discovered in one of the HP cylinder mounts on La

KC’s first trip with full Passenger Certificates in 1985 after a gap of twenty years was to the late Stafford Ellerman who chartered her on behalf of the Coastal Cruising

The SGV Group, operators of five paddle steamers on Lake Lucerne as well as a large fleet of modern motorships, has announced a financially successful group result for the 2024

Three special trips have been organised during 2025 to raise funds for Phase 2 of the Kingswear Castle Rebuild Appeal. All proceeds of these sailings go directly to the appeal.