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P.S. BRISTOL QUEEN, photograph
Bristol Queen leaving for the breakers yard in Belgium, 21st March 1968
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.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2006.39/1364
Acquisition
Bequest, 4/5/2006
Measurements
Length
(mm): 90
Width
(mm): 127
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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