News EventThursday, May 27, 1886 @ 1100DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only |
VICTORIA 1886- Passenger paddle steamer 222 feet long of Captain Campbell) |
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New passenger-carrying paddle steamer VICTORIA launched by Messrs. Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow |
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Today Messrs. Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow, launched a paddle steamer to the order of Captain Campbell, to be employed in his Wemyss Bay service of steamers on the Firth of Clyde. She is named VICTORIA, in honour of Her Majesty. Her length is 222ft., breadth 23ft., depth 8ft. She is fitted with a splendid saloon the whole breadth of the vessel fore and aft, similar to the COLUMBA, and will be propelled by a pair of diagonal surface condensing engines of 140 nominal H.P., supplied with steam from two haystack boilers carrying a working pressure of 50lb per square inch. Fore and aft saloons will be fitted up in a handsome manner, with all the latest improvements for the comfort and convenience of passengers. A telegram was received from Sir H. F. Ponsonby, on behalf of the Queen, giving her Majesty’s sanction to the steamer being named after her, and intimating that he had Her Majesty’s instructions to present Captain Campbell with a set of flags for the steamer. |
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