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P.S. WESTWARD HO in the Avon Gorge (photo)
P.S. WESTWARD HO! carrying many passengers passing under the Clifton Suspension Bridge, pre-1914.
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
1996.213/2
Acquisition
Donation, 17/10/1996
donated in memory of donors father Mr J.H. Guy
Measurements
mount
(mm): 380
mount
(mm): 520
mount
(mm): 270
mount
(mm): 430
Techniques
colour (photomechanical)
photomechanical
Material
card
paper
Location
In store
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