Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Blue print on cream paper. P. & A. Campbell Ltd. Sailings handbill for trips from Eastbourne by the Saloon Steamers BRIGHTON QUEEN, GLEN GOWER and WESTWARD HO!, September 22 - October 8, 1934.

P.S. BRIGHTON QUEEN became H.M.S. BRIGHTON QUEEN during World War I. Mined and sunk October 1915.

1922-1960. Glen Gower was renamed HMS Glenmore in June 1941 and taken into service for World War II.

Paddle steamer, P.S. WESTWARD HO (weight 438 tons) was built by S. Mc Knight & Co., Ayr, in 1894 and owned by P & A Campbell Co. Ltd. P.S. WESTWARD HO was renamed HMS WESTERN QUEEN and served as a minesweeper on the River Tyne at Grimsby during World War I. Re-fitted in 1920 the paddle steamer worked on services in South Devon in the 1930s. The paddle steamer returned to the Tyne in World War II, and assisted in the Dunkirk evacuation before becoming an accommodation ship on the River Dart at the end of the war. The WESTWARD HO was not re-conditioned after the war and was scrapped at Newport, in 1946.