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P.S. BRISTOL QUEEN, photograph
View of the deck of Bristol Queen docked at Cardiff, December 1965
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
2006.39/1354
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: P. & A. Campbell Ltd.
Association Type: company name
Date: 12/1965
Acquisition
Bequest, 4/5/2006
Measurements
Length
(mm): 127
Width
(mm): 88
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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