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Thursday 25 April 2024
Saturday 9 March 2024
MV Kungsholm
MV Kungsholm was built in 1966 by the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland as a combined ocean liner / cruise ship for the Swedish American Line. She was later rebuilt as a full-time cruise ship sailing under the names MV Sea Princess, MV Victoria, MV Oceanic II and MV Mona Lisa. In September 2010 she was retired from service as she did not fulfil requirements to SOLAS 2010, becoming the floating hotel Veronica, before being scrapped in 2016.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia
Monday 5 February 2024
Saturday 20 January 2024
Olivebank
Olivebank was one of two steel barques built by Mackie & Thompson, Glasgow and considered to be the most famous of the A. Weir company. In February 1911, while at Santa Rosa, she had to be scuttled to douse a fire. She was later raised and repaired, but unfortunately, she ran aground at the same place just four months later ! She had various shipowners. On 8th September 1939, she was sunk by a mine off Jutland with the loss of all but 7 of the crew.
Wednesday 4 October 2023
Wednesday 20 September 2023
MV Portree
MV Portree was a ferry, built in 1965 for the Skye crossing. In 1970, she was re-built and moved to the Kyles of Bute where she served until 1986.
Sunday 3 September 2023
Glen Sannox
Glen Sannox entering Ardrossan Harbour she was built by James & George Thomson, Clydebank in 1892, scrapped 1925.
Sunday 13 August 2023
Thursday 10 August 2023
Wednesday 9 August 2023
Monday 7 August 2023
Saturday 15 July 2023
Sunday 9 July 2023
Lucy Ashton
Lucy Ashton was built by T.B. Seath & Co. at their Rutherglen shipyard for the North British Steam Packet Co. to serve on the Craigendoran to Kilmun route. She continued the tradition of naming steamers after characters in Sir Walter Scott’s novels, being named after the main character in the novel The Bride of Lammermoor.[ Over the years she sailed on a number of different routes visiting piers in Greenock, Garelochhead, Clynder, Gourock and Dunoon.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia
Friday 7 July 2023
Saturday 1 July 2023
Sunday 25 June 2023
MV Maid of Cumbrae
MV Maid of Cumbrae was a British passenger ferry operated by Caledonian Steam Packet Company from 1953. In the face of the car ferry revolution, in 1972, she was converted to a 15-car ferry for the Dunoon to Gourock crossing. Sold to Italian owners in 1978, she operated, as Capri Express in the Bay of Naples until 2006, when she was scrapped.
Maid of Cumbrae was the last of a quartet of passenger vessels ordered in 1951 to modernise the Clyde fleet. She was built by Ardrossan Dockyard Ltd. As demand switched from short cruises to car ferries, in 1972, she was converted to operate as a 15-car ferry. She operated in this configuration for three years and was then sold in 1978, for a new career in the Adriatic.
Information courtesy of Wikipedia
Wednesday 21 June 2023
Saturday 25 March 2023
SS Brodick Castle
Built in 1878 by H McIntyre and Co at Paisley
Engines : 2 cylinder simple diagonal, 38.25 in x 66 in (from PS Eagle of 1864)
Dimensions : 207.6 ft x 21.7 ft
243 Gross Registered Tons
Operated by Captain Buchanan year round on the Ardrossan-Arran service from 1878 until the end of the 1886 season
Purchased by the Bournemouth, Swanage & Poole Steam Packet Co in February 1887
Went to the Bristol Channel on charter in 1894 for the Bristol & Ilfracombe Pleasure Steamer Co
The Bristol charter failed in mid-season, being taken over by the local Edwards & Robertson Company
Sailed on the South Coast for Cosens and Co between 1901 and 1910
Sold to Argentinian owners, renamed Ceca Nova, and sank under tow off Portland.
Information courtesy of paddlesteamers.info
Friday 10 February 2023
DEPV Talisman
DEPV Talisman was the world's first diesel-electric paddle vessel. Built in 1935, she was a passenger ferry on the Clyde, seeing wartime service as HMS Aristocrat. From 1953, she served for 14 years on the Millport station.