Paddle Steamer Picture Gallery

 

PS Alexandra


Builders: W Allsup & Sons 1888

Propulsion type: Paddle compound oscillating

Owner: Devon & Cornwall Tamar Steam Packet Co Ltd, William Gilbert, The Saltash, Three Towns & District Steamboat Co Ltd

Service dates: 1888-1927

Tonnage: Gross 127

Comments:

This lovely little steamer, pictured here at Calstock, was built by Allsupps, who were well considered builders of small ferries and pleasure steamers. She sailed from Plymouth on excursion work and had an uneventful career. She was requisitioned in the Great War initially for work delivering market produce from Calstock to Devonport and later for work in Scotland, where she tendered to the Grand Fleet. After the war she returned to excursion work from Plymouth. She was sold in 1927 for scrapping.


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