3rd November 1965:
Jeanie Deans (Part 4 of 13)
By Wednesday 3rd November 1965 Jeanie Deans was ready to run trials. Alongside in the fitting out basin at Lamont’s Shipyard, Port Glasgow, steam was raised. The engine was warmed through. And
2nd November 1965:
Jeanie Deans (Part 3 of 13)
Having arrived aboard the previous night we were all up at the crack of dawn to shift ship from the outside berth on the pier by the side of the
1st November 1965:
Jeanie Deans (Part 2 of 13)
Don Rose had bought the Jeanie Deans. He had persuaded Captain Stanley Woods, master of Princess Elizabeth in the 1965 season, to take command. He had asked two of the Lizzie’s seamen Ken Moore and
31st October 1948:
Solent Queen
On Sunday 31st October 1948 Red Funnel’s Solent Queen arrived under tow in the scrapyard of T W Ward on the Thames at Grays in Essex. She was a ship
30th October 1957:
Bournemouth Queen
On Wednesday 30th October 1957 the Bournemouth Echo ran an article expanding on its announcement the previous day that Red Funnel’s Bournemouth Queen was to be withdrawn. The article makes
29th October 2018:
Stadt Luzern
On Monday 29th October 2018 Stadt Luzern’s outgoing Captain Kuno Stein and her new master Roger Maurer, who will take command on completion of her rebuild, spent the day clearing
28th October 1897:
Princess Beatrice
On 28th October 1897 whilst collecting the mail at the Jersey Dock in Southampton to take out to the North German Lloyd ship Trave, Princess Beatrice was rammed by the
27th October 1955:
Captain Baker’s Plans
Bournemouth manager Captain Baker left Cosens’s employment at the end of the 1955 season. It had been an odd sort of summer not only in the way that the paddle
26th October 1965:
Jeanie Deans (Part 1 of 13)
On Tuesday 26th October 1965 Jeanie Deans was up on the slipway at Lamont’s Shipyard at Port Glasgow with work continuing to prepare her for the voyage south to the Medway for her
25th October 1895:
Southend Belle
On 25th October 1895 Belle Steamers Ltd placed an order with Denny of Dumbarton to build a new paddle steamer to be called Southend Belle to be ready for the
24th October 1967:
Princess Elizabeth
On Tuesday 24th October 1967 Princess Elizabeth arrived at the scrapyard in Southampton. She was towed from her layup berth in the Backwater, through the Town Bridge and on down
23rd October 1947:
Bournemouth Queen
Thursday 23rd October was the last day of the season at Bournemouth in 1947 and was operated by Red Funnel’s Bournemouth Queen which had run the services for this last
22nd October 1922:
Portsmouth/Ryde Ferry Service
On Sunday 22nd October 1922 there were five round trips offered between Portsmouth and Ryde with each of the sailings inward and outward bound also calling at Southsea’s Clarence Pier..
21st October 1969:
Eppleton Hall (Part 2 of 11)
On 21st October 1969 Eppleton Hall was at sea and making her approach to put into Madeira the following day on her voyage from the UK to San Francisco. The
20th October 2011:
Kingswear Castle
On Thursday 20th October 2011 Kingswear Castle ran a thirty minute trip from the Historic Dockyard Chatham at 12 noon for two coach parties who were spending the rest of