Builders: T B Seath & Co Rutherglen 1882
Propulsion type: Paddle Simple diagonal oscillating
Owners: The Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co Ltd; Hastings, St Leonards-on-Sea & Eastbourne Steamboat Co Ltd
Service dates: 1882 - 1899
Tonnage: Gross 434
Comments:
Bonnie Princess was built to replace Bonnie Doon, who had returned to the Clyde after one year on the North Wales Coast. Bonnie Princess had an unusual deck arrangement in that she had a whaleback forecastle and turtle back poop, with a continuous promenade deck from stem to stern. She could carry up to 620 passengers at a speed of 14 knots. This picture shows her at Beaumaris and has been displayed by kind permission of Dylan Rowlands at the Gwynedd Archives Service. For further interesting images of Wales please click here to visit the Gwynedd site. She remained on the North Wales coast for thirteen years, then going to the South Coast of England in 1896, via a spell on the River Mersey. After three years on the South Coast she was sold to Dutch shipbreakers in 1899, who turned her into a lighter. Her relatively short passenger life was down to the fact that her engines were coal hungry and she was very costly to run.