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Come Aboard! Tenby, handbill
Come Aboard! handbill advertising a 'Grand Long Day Cruise to Tenby by P.S. BRISTOL QUEEN', September 10, 1967. Blue print on white paper.
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
87.51I/317
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: P. & A. Campbell Ltd.
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1967
Creation/Production
T. & W. Goulding Ltd.
Acquisition
Donation, 7/4/1987
Measurements
Length
(mm): 254
Width
(mm): 191
Material
paper
Location
In store
Classification
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