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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

Uri was in steam and running trials on Lake Lucerne on Wednesday 25th March. As you can see in the pic the deck seats are still wrapped up for her

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