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Photograph album "Screwships and Groups of Ships"

m.v. BALMORAL, newspaper extracts covering voyages around the Isle of Wight 1970, 1971, 1976,1977. Also advert and booking form for curise in 1977.

Promotion leaflet for Piers of the Realm Cruise" on BALMORAL, 1977. Also newspaper extracts covering this trip, 1977.

m.v. BALMORAL lurid advertisment for "Grand Tour to Portland Dockyard", 1977 with 47 photographs of m.v. BALMORAL.

m.v. CRESTED EAGLE, 1938-1944 (sold): technical specifications and brief history. Also newspaper extracts re. resumption of cruises from Hastings and her sale, with 5 photographs, no date

EMPRESS QUEEN, (HMS QUEEN EAGLE 1940-1944) later Philippos 1955), 1939-1955: technical specifications and brief history. Plan vessels decks, 1959.

Cook's Continental timetable, Janury 1959. Advertising leaflets, 1960 and 1969. Newspaper extract covering holiday makers stranded on board, no date with 19 photographs

Robin Knox-Johnston, nearing the end of his round the worls journey, newspaper extract, April 1969.

m.v. QUEEN OF THE ISLES, 1968 -1969

m.v. ST. TRILLO (1936-1975) technical specifications and brief history. Newspaper extracts covering her purchase and her fate with Campbell's with 23 photographs, no date.

m.v. VECTA, 1965.

m.v. WESTWARD HO! "Hunt for Mystery Low Flier" newspaper extract, 1971.

Groups of ships, 46 photographs.

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.

Turbine steamer (1940). During World War II (Nov 1940 to Sep 1943) she was renamed HMS Queen Eagle.

Built 1938, in service till 1985, broken up 1996.