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PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar on Loch Long until 1973. [ 3 ] Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS), she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the ...
PS Waverley departing on a cruise from Greenock in Scotland. This is a list of extant paddle steamers, including those in active service as well as museum ships and surviving paddle steamers that have been proposed at some stage and are still possible candidates for restoration. It does not include submerged paddle steamer wreck sites.
Waverley was built for the North British Steam Packet Co. by A. & J. Inglis at their Pointhouse Shipyard on the Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. [1] [7] The ship was designed to be the flagship of the North British Steam Packet Co. fleet with the intention that it could be used for regular Clyde services but also to help the company expand their initial foray into excursions in areas around Bute ...
This site, where the former A. & J. Inglis shipyard built the PS Waverley, enables the Clyde Maritime Trust's tall ship Glenlee and other visiting craft to berth alongside the museum. [9] The current museum opened on Tuesday 21 June 2011. The Riverside Museum building was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and engineers Buro Happold. [10]
PS Waverley (1865) (1865–1873) built by A & J Inglis, Glasgow to replace 1864 vessel; sold in 1868 and wrecked in 1873 on Guernsey [2] PS Waverley (1885) (1885–1921) built for Captain Robert Campbell for the Kilmun station, taken over by his sons P & A Campbell, operated in the Bristol Channel 1887 to 1917, ferry and minesweeper during ...
PS Waverley in 1970, funnels in CSP livery with red lion rampant PS Waverley restored to its original LNER livery After years of fierce competition between all the fleets, the CR and GSWR amalgamated with several other railways at the start of 1923 to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and their fleets amalgamated into the Caledonian Steam Packet Company, their funnels being ...
PS Waverley was a Clyde-built paddle steamer that carried passengers on the Clyde between 1885 and 1887, then on the Bristol Channel from 1887 until 1916, when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as a minesweeper during World War I.
The PS Waverley, built in 1947, is the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. This ship sails a full season of cruises every year from places around Britain, and has sailed across the English Channel for a visit to commemorate the 1940 sinking of her 1899-built predecessor at the Battle of Dunkirk .