pleasure steamer

Most trade transferred to larger ports during the 20th century, but pleasure steamers did call at the port.

Inspector Bland spent the afternoon taking a trip in that well-known pleasure steamer.

In 1936, a pleasure steamer returning from Llandudno crashed into the pier.

With every pleasure steamer on the Hdm looking on?

In the United States, they travelled on pleasure steamers on the country's great rivers.

An estimated crowd of 100,000 watched from the shore or from pleasure steamers and small boats at sea.

A pier was built some years ago, making transfer from the island supply ship and visiting pleasure steamers much easier – although less exciting.

Bailey bridges had to be used to span the gaps so that by 1947 the pleasure steamers were calling at the pier again.

However the greatest increase in visitors came with the building of the second 'new' pier in 1895, built primarily for use by pleasure steamers.

When we spotted her 'below the Plimsoll Line', she was clearly one of the last surviving 'pleasure steamers'.

A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century.

It was used for bunkering the pleasure steamers, but it fell into disuse at the end of the 1920s.

Various acts of violence on a pleasure steamer and it becomes a question of 'who murdered the bride?'

The pier was capable of handling one passenger vessel, three cargo vessels and two pleasure steamers simultaneously.

During a “friendly” get-together on a Rhine pleasure steamer, voices were heard raised in anger on the lower deck.

One of the last pleasure steamers of the season was passing, with cabin lights ablaze, on its way to Kew.

Pleasure steamers.

Quietly riding the lane of moonlight, the pleasure steamer passed the island with its winking beacon and entered the fjord.

On the way, they encountered a strange variety of craft, sailing vessels, mud hoppers and Thames pleasure steamers.

The last commercial pleasure steamers were operated by P and A Campbell in 1979, although two preserved ships still make regular appearances.

The pleasure steamer Mona's Isle, for example, now fitted out as an armed boarding vessel, was amongst the many.

Indeed, she only has to start wearing her range around the house and it could increase the number of pleasure steamers plying this part of the harbour.

Pleasure steamers can be accommodated on the West Pier and other small pleasure vessels are allocated designated areas.

Pleasure steamers - Waverley and Balmoral, day trips from Ilfracombe harbour.

The historic pleasure steamer Balmoral is currently spending four days in Hartlepool, offering cruises from the town's fish quay.