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CARDIFF QUEEN, no date RAVENSWOOD, 1891 BRIGHTON QUEEN, no date WAVERLEY I, on first trip from Eastbourne, 1911 DEVONIA, entering Swansea, 1933 WAVERLEY II, as SNAEFELL running the beaches during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. GLEN AVON, while running the beaches during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. GLEN AVON, no date CARDIFF QUEEN, remains of, no date LUNDY, disembarking at the landing beach, CAMBRIA in background, no date CAMBRIA, on fire at Grays, Essex, 1946 Campbell's Paddle Steamer (possible CAMBRIA) docked at the harbour seen from St. James' Park, Ilfracombe, no date. BRITANNIA, artisits impression, no date. The harbour, Ilfracombe, Campbell's Vessel in distance (unidentified). Colour tinted postcard, posted in 1960. LADY MARGARET, in furness? Railway colours, no date. BRIGHTON QUEEN I, no date. BRIGHTON QUEEN and BALMORAL, off Brighton c.1937. GLAN AVON, no date BRIGHTON QUEEN II, arriving at Eastbourne Pier for first time (en route Boulogne) copy newspaper, 1933. DEVONIA, no date Penarth, view of pier from the baths, postcard facsimile of old photograph, posted 1980. p.s. WAVERLEY and m.v. BALMORAL at Ilfracombe, 1979. BRIGHTON QUEEN I, Eastbourne Pier c.1900. WAVERLEY at Bournemouth, 1978 CARDIFF QUEEN, no date BRISTOL QUEEN, Weymouth 1962 CARDIFF QUEEN, no date BRIGHTON QUEEN I, Eastbourne 1913 GLEN USK, Penarth Dock 1961 Minesweepers Ilfracombe, january 1919. WAVERLEY I, GLEN ROSA, HARLEQUIN (late STRATHMORE), MONARCHY (MONARCH) GLEN CROSS (GLEN ROSA). GLEN USK, ashore at Horseshoe Bend, River Avon, 1959. LADY MARGARET, VELLINORA, WAVERLELY and BONNIE DOON (L-R) (Ilfracombe) 1888. CARDIFF QUEEN, no date LORNA DOONE, BONNIE DOONE, WESTWARD HO!, ALEXANDRA (late AQUILA) (L to R), CAMBRIA lying off Ilfracombe, 1895. BRIGHTON QUEEN, last trip of season, no date. GLEN USK, first post-war call Minehead, 1951 CARDIFF QUEEN, April 1968 CARDIFF QUEEN, artists impression, A.White no date CARDIFF QUEEN, colour photograph no date The Colwyn Bay and Liverpool Steampship Co. Ltd., (letter heading) depicting new cross-channel saloon paddle steamer, s.s. RHOS COLWYN, which became TINTERN and finally WESTONIA under P&A Campbell Ltd., no date. "Coronation of H.M King George V. Grand Naval Review" 2 June 1911. Fast day excursion to Spithead poster 1911. WAVERLEY II, no date p.s. CAMBRIDGE, 1914-1918 ex CAMBRIA, Plinlimmon 1939-1945. DUCHESS OD DEVONSHIRE, no date WAVERLEY I, no date RAVENSWOOD, no date BRITANNIA, artists impression, with sketches on reverse, no signature (possibly A White), no date. CARDIFF QUEEN aground in Avon, August 1963. GLEN GOWER on last trips from Eastbourne 1956 CAMBRIA (at Bournemouth) no date CAMBRIA Peter Campbell on bridge (right) 1902 CAMBRIA, at Bournemouth Pier c.1900.

P.S. GLEN USK. Built 1914.

CARDIFF QUEEN. Built 1947 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan, the last paddle steamer to be built for P & A Campbell Ltd. 1966 – Laid up at Cardiff Docks, and put on the sales list. 1968 – Sold to Critchcraft Ltd., Chepstow. It was intended to use her as a floating nightclub at Newport, and was moored at Mill Parade Wharf in February. The tidal range, however, proved obstructive, and after an expensive recovery operation, the vessel was sold to John Cashmore Ltd in the April, to be broken up further upstream. (Source: “Bristol Channel Pleasure Steamers” - Robert Wall)

P.S. RAVENSWOOD (1891-1955). She became H.M.S. Ringtail from Sept 1943 to April 1944 when she was taken into service during World War II.

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

The paddle steamer Waverley, built 1885, was renamed HMS Way during World War I.

The P.S. DEVONIA was launched on 22 March 1905 by John Brown at Clydebank. Engines - Compound diagonal 34.5 and 71 in x 60 in. Dimensions : 245 ft x 29 ft. Gross Registered Tonnes 641. She was built for the Barry Railway Co. Ltd. She was bought by P. & A. Campbell in 1911, after they had succeeded in forcing the rival Barry company out of business. During the First World War she became H.M.S. DEVONIA and served as a minesweeper on the East Coast. She was assigned to the South Coast when Campbells returned to that station in 1923, remaining there until 1932. She then served on the Bristol Channel until being laid up in 1939, when she was reconditioned for use as a minesweeper and sent to eastern Scotland. Attended the Dunkirk evacuation, but was abandoned on the French coast on 31 May 1940 under heavy fire from enemy aircraft, though unfounded rumours persisted for many years that she had been salvaged and put into service on the River Elbe.

The paddle steamer Barry was re-named Waverley in 1925. She was taken into service during World War II and renamed HMS Snaefell. She was lost in 1941.

P.S. CAMBRIA was renamed HMS Cambridge during the course of World War I and HMS Plinlimmon during World War II. (1895-1946).

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).

Built in 1870 as Carrick Castle

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.

Built in 1946 to replace the ship lost during World War II

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

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.

during the war known as HMS Glencross

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.