PADDLE STEAMER WAVERLEY
The Unofficial Site
Updated 10 May 2013
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ALL OF WAVERLEY’S 2013 TIMETABLE HAS NOW BEEN ANNOUNCED Full
details see the official web
site |
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P.S.KINGSWEAR CASTLE RETURNS TO DARTMOUTH Article on her first public
sailings 29 March 2013 On
7 February 2013 KC returned to Totnes on trial for the first time since
1965. See pictures on PSPS
Scottish Blog and video on You
Tube. See also Heritage
Steamers video of a trip from Totnes to Dartmouth in 1962. Previously
KC had been running trials at Dartmouth.
See the local website theviewfromthedartmouthoffice.com
and the Blog. KC
left Chatham for Dartmouth at 09.00 on 11 December and reached Portland
Harbour for shelter at 11.10 on 12 December.
She was able to continue her voyage on 18 December, arriving at
Dartmouth at 16.00. For full details
read the Blog. For
the full story see the PSPS, Kingswear
Castle and Dartmouth Rail & River web sites |
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BALMORAL NOT TO OPERATE A CONTINUOUS TIMETABLE IN 2013 Full
details see PSPS
web site |
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Updated 10 May 2013 |
Waverley Rebuild Diary The full story of the first phase of Waverley's Heritage Rebuild in 2000 The Completion Phase in 2002/03 |
updated 12 December 2012 Textual changes to home page.
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Unofficial Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle
Web Site Site re-launched 12 July 2012 Article on her first public
sailings 29 March 2013 updated 5 April 2013
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Waverley at Erskine 2.40pm on 17 April 2012 en route
to Greenock for dry docking (Joe McKendrick) |
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Waverley in the Garvel Dry Dock on 11 May 2011 (Joe
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Passing Dalmuir Sewage
Works on 13 October 2011 (Joe McKendrick) |
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Waverley in dry dock in Greenock, May 2010 by Joe McKendrick |
Waverley at Coll taken on Monday 7 May 2007 by Geoffrey Vickery |
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Easter
in the Western Isles 2011 Bristol
Channel (Second report) Bristol
Channel (First report) |
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Why not visit the PSPS Scottish Branch Blog or PSPS Wessex Branch Blog? |
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Did you know? WAVERLEY ABBEY .... The ruin is situated in the Surrey countryside between Farnham and Godalming. It was the first Cistercian monastery in England. During his travels, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) visited the ruins and was very impressed by them, so much so that he named his first novel Waverley after the monastery. As Scotland embraced anything to do with Sir Walter, it was inevitable that a ship would carry this name. |
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Waverley's Official Web Site |
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Waverley returning to Tarbert Pier to pick up passengers for return trip to Ayr on 22 August 2000. Image by John Cuckney |
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The last sea-going paddle steamer in the world sailing round the coasts of the United Kingdom.... Firth of Clyde, Western Isles, Liverpool and Llandudno, River Thames, Bristol Channel, South Coast....through to October each year.
Paddle Steamer Waverley is operated by Waverley Excursions Ltd and supported by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society.
Driven by a 2,100 horse power triple expansion diagonal steam engine, this ship has two bars, dining saloon and accomodates up to 800 passengers.
Full Timetables, Fares and Bookings are available from:
Waverley Excursions Ltd, Waverley Terminal, 36 Lancefield Quay, Glasgow G3 8HA
Telephone 0845 130 4647 - Credit Card Bookings Taken
Official Waverley Excursions Web Site
This unofficial Paddle Steamer Waverley web site is maintained by Martin.Longhurst@btinternet.com. Please note that all enquiries regarding sailings and all other business matters must be addressed to Waverley Excursions Ltd. by post, phone, fax or email.
The views expressed on this site are not necessarily those of Waverley Excursions Limited or the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society.
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Waverley At North Pier Oban on Saturday 5 May 2007 By Daniel Vickery |
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Waverley sailing downriver on her way to Greenock on Sunday 17 August 2008 seen from Coronation Park, Port Glasgow at 1115 By Richard Gleed-Owen |
Special Features
Waverley Writings A collection of articles about the paddler between 1995 and 1999
Waverley Writings Web A series of reports written as it happened covering the 2000, 2001 and 2002 seasons
Waverley's 2003 Season Web Site A series of reports written as it happened covering the 2003 season
Waverley's 2004 Season Web Site A series of reports written as it happened covering the 2004 season
Waverley's 2005 Season Web Site A series of reports written as it happened covering the 2005 season
Waverley's 2006 Season Web Site A series of reports written as it happened covering the 2006 season
Waverley's 2007 Season Web Site A series
of reports written as it happened covering the 2007 season
Waverley's
2008 Season Web Site A series of reports written as it happened
covering the 2008 season
Waverley's 2009 Season Web Site A series of reports written as it happened covering the 2009 season
Links
Paddle Steamer Heritage Preserving and making accessible the heritage of British Paddle Steamers
Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Britain's last operational coal fired paddle steamer sailing on the River Dart in Devon
Paddle Steamer Preservation Society The registered charity which supports the continued preservation of P.S. Waverley and P.S. Kingwear Castle - find out how you can help! Membership includes Paddle Wheels colour magazine quarterly.
Maid of the Loch Statically preserved on Loch Lomond in Scotland
Clyde River Steamer Club for those interested in the steamers of the Clyde & the Western Isles and their history, operations and photographs from their first beginnings to the present day.
West Highland Steamer Club, founded in 1967, for those interested in the workings of the Western Isles fleet of David MacBrayne, now known as Caledonian MacBrayne.
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