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P.S. WESTWARD HO, photograph
Starboard view of the Westward Ho arriving at Ilfracombe, August 1934
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
2006.39/919
Acquisition
Bequest, 4/5/2006
Measurements
Length
(mm): 89
Width
(mm): 140
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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