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Photograph album Volume I, P& A Campbell, names A-B, with technical specifications and histories. Note - Dates given re total known life of vessel.
ALBION - (ex SLIEVE DONARD and HMS ALBYN 1914-1919), 1893-1921. 28 photographs.
BONNIE DOONE - 1876-1913; includes cartoon of Captain Hector Macfadyn. 16 photographs.
BRIGHTON BELLE - (ex LADY EVELYN) 1900-1940. 24 photographs.
BRIGHTON QUEEN I - 1897 (1901 in Campbells of Kilmun) - 1915. 1 painting by A.A.White. 40 photographs.
BRIGHTON QUENN II - (ex GWALIA 1905-1910 and LADY MOYRA, 1910-1933), 1905-1940. 52 photographs.
BRISTOL QUEEN - 1946 - (1968), incomplete written history. Newspaper extracts from 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1963. 58 photographs.
BRITANNIA - (HMS BRITAIN 1914-1918 and HMS SKIDDAW 1939-1945), 1896-1956. Script of newspaper extract re Diamond Jubilee Spithead Review, 1897. (see also South Coast Service File) 84 photographs.
The paddle steamer ALBION was renamed H.M.S. ALBYN during World War I.
ex Lady Evelyn (built 1900), 1923-1939
P.S. BRIGHTON QUEEN became H.M.S. BRIGHTON QUEEN during World War I. Mined and sunk October 1915.
P.S. LADY MOYRA was renamed BRIGHTON QUEEN in 1933. Sank at Dunkirk, 1940, on her second trip to evacuate soldiers.
P.S. BRISTOL QUEEN. Built 1946 by Charles Hill & Sons Ltd., Bristol (with triple-expansion engine by Rankin & Blackmore Ltd), for P. & A. Campbell Ltd. She was the largest paddle steamer built for the company. 1959 – Laid up at Penarth for two years, she returned to service in the Spring of 1961. In August 1967, she hit a submerged object off the coast at Barry, and damaged her starboard paddle wheel. She was taken out of service three days later, and laid up at Cardiff. Despite attempts to preserve the vessel, she was towed to Ostend in March 1968 and broken up.
P.S. BRITANNIA. Built in 1896 by S. McKnight & Co., Aire. She was renamed HMS Briton during World War I and HMS Skiddaw during World War 2. (1896-1956).