2023 Royal Solent Magazine
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Further to the article on PS Waverley on page 14 - 16, please find below a list of acknowledgements and a list of notable Solent paddle steamers.
Acknowledgements
- The writer is a member of the Royal Solent Yacht Club, and a member of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society. He fitted out a 35’ yacht over an eight-year period and he keeps it on the South Coast. Although a career at sea has skipped a couple of generations, the writer’s son, James, holds a Master Mariner’s Certificate (unlimited) and he is currently First Officer on a cruise ship with Carnival Corporation & PLC.
- Photographs (Figures 1-4) taken by R. Fortson.
- ‘Re-Boilering a National Treasure The Illustrated story of Paddle Steamer Waverley’s 2020 Boiler Refit’; Waverley Excursions Ltd., 2021.
- PS Waverley (II): ‘Birth of a Legend’, extended edition, 2022, Waverley Excursions Ltd.
- Alistair McMillan: https://alistairmcmillan.github.io/2018/05/12/PS-Waverley-(1899-1940).html
- ‘Solent Passages and their Steamers’, Ken Davies; Isle of Wight County Press; and see ‘Red Funnel and before’, R.B. Adams; Kingfisher Railway Productions, c.1986.
- Ian Harvey, ‘Grace [sic] Fields – The Martyr Steamer of the Dunkirk’; June 20, 2015; War History Online; https://bit.ly/3SvtRyD
- Various photographs, including PS Ryde, appear on the website “Wootton Bridge Historical”: http://woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/psryde.php
- For an outline of the history of PS Ryde, see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Ryde
- Data in Table 1, in relation to the Solent paddle steamers, have been taken from ‘Solent Passages and their Steamers’, R. K (Ken) Davies, Isle of Wight County Press, 1982.
- Figure 9 reproduced from ‘Paddle Steamers’, Bernard Cox, Blandford Press, 1979.
- Figures 10 and 12 reproduced from ‘Red Funnel and before’; R.B. Adams; Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1986, p.13.
Notable Solent Paddle Steamers
|
Paddle Steamer |
Length (ft) |
Beam (ft) |
Draught (ft) |
Tons |
Speed (knots) |
Passenger capacity (original cert.) |
|
Waverley (1946) |
239.9 |
57.3 |
6.3 |
693 |
14.5 - 16 |
1350 |
|
Jeanie Deans (1931; subsequently, ‘Queen of the South’ 1964-67) |
250.6 |
30.1 |
6.1 |
635 |
18.5 max |
1022 – 1715 |
|
Thames (Ex Argyle) (1814: arrived in the Solent in 1821) |
76.5 |
14.5 |
6.6 |
49 |
|
|
|
Heather Belle (1871) |
207.3 |
21 |
8.8 |
271 |
12 |
|
|
Southampton (1872) |
150.1 |
20.1 |
8.7 |
203 |
12 |
272 |
|
Carrisbrooke (1876) |
165.7 |
20.5 |
8 |
198 |
12 |
463 |
|
Solent Queen (1889) |
215.6 |
21.1 |
8.2 |
324 |
16 |
|
|
Lorna Doone (I) (1891) |
220.5 |
26 |
9.2 |
427 |
17.5 |
|
|
Lymington (1893) |
120 |
18.1 |
7.7 |
130 |
|
|
|
Balmoral (1900) |
236 |
27.1 |
9.6 |
473 |
20 |
|
|
Duchess of Norfolk (1911) |
190 |
26.1 |
8.7 |
381 |
14 |
|
|
Lorna Doone (II) (1916) |
235.2 |
29 |
9.2 |
798 |
16 |
1,000 |
|
Shanklin (1924) |
190 |
26.1 |
8.7 |
412 |
12 |
700 |
|
Princess Elizabeth (1927) |
195 |
24.2 |
8 |
371 |
14 |
700 + 10 cars |
|
Freshwater (1927) |
158.8 |
23.1 |
8.3 |
264 |
12 |
500 |
|
Whippingham (1930) |
244 |
30.1 |
10.5 |
825 |
16 |
1,183 |
|
Sandown (1934) |
216 |
29.1 |
10 |
684 |
14 |
974 |
|
Gracie Fields (1936) |
159.9 |
24.9 |
8 |
393 |
14 |
700 + 10 cars |
|
Ryde (1937) |
220 |
29 |
10.5 |
680 |
14 |
1,011 |
Please click on the links below to view a PDF of the Club's past newspapers and magazine.
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