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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

  1. 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.
  2. Photographs (Figures 1-4) taken by R. Fortson.
  3. Re-Boilering a National Treasure The Illustrated story of Paddle Steamer Waverley’s 2020 Boiler Refit’; Waverley Excursions Ltd., 2021.
  4. PS Waverley (II): ‘Birth of a Legend’, extended edition, 2022, Waverley Excursions Ltd. 
  5. Alistair McMillan: https://alistairmcmillan.github.io/2018/05/12/PS-Waverley-(1899-1940).html
  6. 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.
  7. Ian Harvey, ‘Grace [sic] Fields – The Martyr Steamer of the Dunkirk’; June 20, 2015; War History Online; https://bit.ly/3SvtRyD
  8. Various photographs, including PS Ryde, appear on the website “Wootton Bridge Historical”:  http://woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/psryde.php
  9. For an outline of the history of PS Ryde, see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Ryde
  10. 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.
  11. Figure 9 reproduced from ‘Paddle Steamers’, Bernard Cox, Blandford Press, 1979.
  12. 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

 


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Please click on the links below to view a PDF of the Club's past newspapers and magazine.
 

2022 Royal Solent Spring Times

2021 Royal Solent Christmas Times

2021 Royal Solent Summer Times

2021 Royal Solent Spring Times

2020 Royal Solent Christmas Times

2020 Royal Solent Magazine

 


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