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P.S. WESTWARD HO, photograph

Port view of Westward Ho on trials in the Firth of Clyde, 5th June 1894

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.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2006.39/109

Acquisition

Bequest, 4/5/2006

Measurements

Length (mm): 120
Width (mm): 165

Techniques

black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph

Material

paper

Location

In store

Categories

steam (maritime) maritime 1890s Westward Ho (P.S.)
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