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[formidable]

Does anyone know the name of the paddle boat that gave trips around weymouth and portland about 50 years ago.I remember being 2nd in a raffle on her 10 bob i won oh memories awakened

[charvey]

Hi Formidable,

Was it the PS Consul, PS Embassy, or the PS Monarch, or possibly the PS Emperor of India (Withdrawn 1956)?  I believe all four boats ran trips around the harbor at various times through the late 50's.  By the early 60's PS Emperor of India, and the PS Monarch had been withdrawn, but by 1963 PS Princess Elizabeth joined the PS Embassy which was the last of the Cosens paddle steamers at Weymouth.  PS Princess Elizabeth was withdrawn from service in 1966, and PS Embassy was withdrawn and scrapped in 1967.

Chris

[formidable]

I dont reconise the name ,it would have been 1959 though.

[Colin Bishop]

Looks like it would have been Consul or Embassy then according to the Cozens fleet list. See pictures here: http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Cosens2.html

I remember going on one to Lulworth Cove as a boy in the Fifties but I can't remember which one it was. Before the war, my Uncle was nearly killed at Lulworth Cove when he fell off the boarding plank and was drawn into the paddle wheel which gave him a glancing blow on the head. I remember him showing me the scar!

Colin

[DickyD]

There was the Bristol Queen run by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society alongside the  Embassy and the Princess Elizabeth

[Colin Bishop]

Formidable, do you remember the colour of the funnel? Cosens ships had buff funnels with black tops while P&A Campbell's Bristol Queen had white funnels.

Colin

[formidable]

Sorry i cant the boat was not very big you could go down and watch the paddles go round,I think the colour of the boat was buff .It only had one funnel that i can remember. It used to just go around the bay for about 2 hours in the evening.

[DickyD]

http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.lee/consulimg.htm

[DickyD]

http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.lee/embassyimg.htm

[Colin Bishop]

Looks like it was Consul or Embassy then. As it was the smaller Cosens vessels that did the round the bay trips then Embassy would seem to be the most likely.

[formidable]

Thats the boat well done thanks all of you

[geoff p]

Hi All,
I'm new to the forum.  Have read your notes about paddlers with great interest.  And wonder if you can also help me identify one?

When I was a boy, in the early '50s, we used to holiday at a caravan at Swanage and occasionally take a paddle steamer trip (to Bournemouth, maybe?).

I clearly remember spending most of the time on just about every trip watching the engines: there was a walkway all round and a bit above, the engines.  I seem to remember the two engines were independent.  They were definitely horizontal or inclined and the cylinder casings were red.

As for the colours of the boat .... not a clue!  See above, interested in the engines.

Any ideas, please?

Geoff P