Steamers
With much interest in our Lovely Old Ships feature including images from the private archives of Jerry Pitcher ...
1. The P.S City of Rochester off Cliffe on the River Medway
2. The P.S Clacton Belle
3. P.S Crested Eagle
4. P.S London Belle
5. P.S Medway Queen, Portside Stern
6. P.S Medway Queen steaming
7. P.S Medway Queen coming alongside
8. P.S Queen of Kent
9. P.S Queen of Thanet pictured on 10th July 1934
10. P.S Queen of Thanet
11. P.S Royal Eagle on the River Thames
12. P.S Royal Eagle passes under Tower Bridge
13. P.S Royal Eagle returns down river past the Tower of London
14. P.S Royal Eagle & P.S Queen of Thanet at Margate Pier
15. P.S Royal Sovereign off Margate Pier in 1906
16. P.S Royal Sovereign off Ramsgate
17. Royal Daffodil off Margate Pier (Wayne Potter Archive)
18. The later M.V Royal Sovereign
19. M.V Royal Sovereign
285' length, twin screw, 1,851 gross ton capable of carrying 1,783 passengers at 20 knots
20. M.V Queen of the Channel
21. M.V Queen of the Channel off Ramsgate
22. Attempted post war revival of Paddle Steamer coastal pleasure cruising in 1945
23. P.S Waverley
Not what it was in its heyday, but trips from the East Coast Towns run troughout the summer season onboard the P.S Waverley
See also the P.S Medway Queen