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Come Aboard! Tenby, handbill
Blue print on white paper. Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, Come Aboard! handbill advertising 'the first excursion since 1938 from Bristol to the beautiful Welsh resort of Tenby or to Mumbles' on the M.V. BALMORAL, 13 June, 1971. In co-operation with P. & A. Campbell Ltd.
Built 1949 at Southampton for the Red Funnel Fleet. Joined P & A Campbell's White Funnel Fleet in 1969 but following the demise of that company, served as an unsuccessful floating restaurant at Dundee until she was restored and returned to service in 1986. She was originally powered by two Newbury Sirron diesel engines, but these were replaced by engines of Danish manufacture in 2003.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
87.51I/348
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: P. & A. Campbell Ltd.
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1971
Associated Person/Body: Paddle Steamer Preservation Society
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1971
Acquisition
Donation, 7/4/1987
Measurements
Length
(mm): 291
Width
(mm): 127
Material
paper
Location
In store
Classification
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