Paddle Steamer Picture Gallery

 

PS Britannia


Builders: Philip & Son, Dartmouth 1900

Propulsion type: Paddle, compound diagonal

Owner: Millbrook Steamboat Co

Service dates: 1900 - 1939

Tonnage: Gross 64

Comments: Older visitors may remember this little steel built, river excursion steamer, which was introduced to the Millbrook fleet in 1900. She operated an extensive schedule on the River Tamar in the West Country. Amongst her duties were visits to Weir Head, landings at Morwellham Quay to "visit the rocks", evening trips to the River Lynher and St Germans Quay and regular excursions to the Breakwater and Cawsand, in Plymouth Sound. Passenger facilities were basic, with slatted seats in the fore and aft cabins, positioned around the cabin side. She sailed reliably, if uneventfully for nearly forty years before she was broken up at Stonehouse in 1939.


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