Faced with these inroads in multiple fronts the Glasgow Southwestern Railway made application to Parliament to run its own steamboat service.

Glasgow steamer boat. The Bill was passed in August 1891 but it placed some restrictions on the Glasgow Southwestern steamers preventing them sailing to the Lochfyne and Kintyre ports and the west coast of Arran. The ship plied the fifteen-minute journey between Rutherglen Quay and Hutchesontown Bridge in Glasgow six times a day in each direction. Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council Glasgow Museums Keywords.

Ad Luxury Cobalt Boats in Lake Geneva WI. The fares charged were 3d in the cabin and 2d steerage with a cabin return at 4d. An aerial view of the PS Waverley the worlds last sea-going paddle steamer as she sails back up the River Clyde tonight on her way back to Glasgow an amazing old lady of the sea.

By 1903 when the ferries had become unprofitable in the face of competition from the citys trams and the Glasgow District Subway system No 5 was sold to the London Pleasure Boat Co. The very last of these paddle boats ever to be built in Glasgow for Clyde Services was called the PS Waverley built in 1946. Freedom Of The Seas Steam Boats Classic Yachts.

So popular was this service that in four months the little steamer had carried no fewer than 36000 passengers. The PS paddle steamer Comet was built in 1812 for Henry Bell hotel and baths owner in Helensburgh and began a passenger service on 15 August 1812 on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe. The builder Bill Abbott powered the vessel using a Graupner steam plant although this has recently been changed and the model is now propelled by electric motors.

The new boat was hugely successful putting Helensburgh on the map as a tourist destination and beginning the River Clydes long association as a mighty shipbuilding hub. How Glasgow steamers invented the booze cruise sailing down the River Clyde Who knew that having a swally on a Clyde steamship heading doon the watter was the Ibiza boat party of yesteryear. PS Waverley Aerial View.

On August 6 1812 with Bell and Robertson on board the Comet made an initial voyage from Port Glasgow to the Broomielaw then sailed from Glasgow 24 miles down to Greenock. The Glasgow steam boat was engaged in a week-long pleasure cruise with a party of gentlemen in the first week of June but returned to her usual sailings on Monday June 14th leaving Glasgow at nine oclock in morning for Greenock Gourock and. New and used models for sale.