Builders: Dudgeon, Cubitt Town Middlesex 1866
Propulsion type: Paddle, two cylinder oscillating
Owner: Saltash & Devonport Steamboat Co, Saltash Three Towns & District Steamboat Co Ltd
Service dates: 1866 - 1923
Tonnage: Gross 73
Comments:
My thanks go to John Bosworth for restoring this faded postcard from his collection and for allowing me to show the image here.
Built originally for an exhibition in London, she joined the Saltash fleet in 1870. Built of iron and with a length of 110 ft, she could carry 341 passengers, which reduced to 188 when visiting Cawsand Bay. She was frequently crowded and was a very popular steamer, reputed to be the smoothest of all the steamers on the Tamar. Unlike most other excurson ships in the locality, Eleanor was a teetotal boat and as such was regularly used for church and Sunday School outings. She lasted in service over fifty years before being broken up in 1923, when she became too old and too expensive to refurbish.