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Index : River, estuarine and inshore : ferries and excursion vessels
List includes only those steamers
currently profiled in the historical database
Other vessels may be mentioned in the individual company or sailing areas pages of the database
pending individual vessel profiles being written up.
There is minimal coverage of vessels of the first half of the 19th century. Some may be referred to in the individual text pages
Certain vessels appear several times - ie under each name they used
whilst in service in the United Kingdom
Dates shown are year of launch and year of scrapping or loss.
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vessel
** The list does not include short sea vessels such as cross-channel and Irish Sea ferries. See operators' individual pages for these vessels **
Also generally excluded are vessels which were primarily used as tugs but which also offered passenger excursions
PADDLE STEAMERS (* including diesel-electric paddle vessel Talisman)
Albert
Edward (1865-1888 ex -
Kyles)
Albert Victor (1866-1869 in British waters, to Germany as Helgoland, later Blankenese)
Albion (1893-1922, ex - Slieve
Donard)
Alexandra (1863-1904)
Alexandra (1865-1889)
Alexandra (1879-1934)
Alleyn (1905-1916 in British waters - sent for
war service in Mesopotamia)
Ardgowan (1866-1898, later Duke of
Cambridge)
Ardencaple (1866-1888 later Duke of
Connaught)
Ardmore (1861-1919, ex - Sultan, later
Gairlochy)
Audrey (1897-1929)
Auld Reekie (1847-1892)
Balmoral
(1900-1949)
Bangor Castle (1864-1899, ex
- Palmerston)
Belle (1892-1921)
Ben Johnson (1905-1909 in British waters - to Switzerland as Rhein)
Benmore (1876-1923)
Bickerstaffe (1879-1928)
Bilsdale
Bonnie Doon
(1876-1913)
Bonnie
Princess (1882-1889, sold to Dutch interests)
Bournemouth Queen
(1908-1957)
Boydell (1905-1909 in British waters - to
Belgrade in Serbia)
Brighton (1878 - 1918 in British waters - to Turkey - scrapped 1927)
Brighton Belle (1900-1940,
ex - Lady
Evelyn)
Brighton Queen
(1897-1915)
Brighton Queen
(1905-1940, ex - Lady Moyra, ex -
Gwalia)
Bristol Queen
(1946-1968)
Britannia (1896-1956)
Britannia (1897-1940, ex - Kylemore, later
Vulcan then Kylemore)
Brodick Castle
(1878-1910)
Brocklesby (1912-1934, later Highland Queen - scrapped 1936)
Brunel (1905-1916 in British waters - to
Mesopotamia on war service)
Caledonia
(1889-1933)
Caledonia (1934-1980, later Old
Caledonia)
Cambria (1895-1946)
Cardiff Queen
(1947-1968)
Carham (1864-1890, later Queen
of Thanet)
Carisbrooke
(1876-1921 in British waters, later Rhos Trevor then St Trillo - to
Spain as San
Telmo)
Carlyle (1905-1916 in British waters - to
Messopotamia on war service)
Carrick Castle (1870-1898, later Lady
Margaret then Lord Tredegar)
Caxton (1905-?)
Chancellor (1880-1901 in British waters
- to Spain as Commercio)
Charles Lamb (1905-1910 in
British waters - to Genoa, Italy as
Zulema)
Chaucer (1905-1911 in British
waters - to Nantes, France as Ville
d'Angers)
Christopher Wren (1905-1916 in
British waters - to Mosopotamia on war
service)
City of Rochester
(1904-1941)
Clacton (1888 in British waters - to Turkey
as Aidin, scrapped in 1913)
Clacton Belle
(1890-1929)
Clacton Queen (ex
- Duchess of Kent, later
Jubilee Queen, Jubilee)
Cleethorpes (1903-1935, later Cruising Queen)
Cloughmore (1896-1928, lex- Greenore, later Ribble Queen)
Colechurch (1905-1910 in
British waters - to Lake Lugano as Lombardia - scrapped in
1925)
Columba (1878-1936)
Compton
Castle (1914-date)
Consul (1896-1968, ex - Duke
of Devonshire)
Corfe Castle (1902-1939,
ex - Mauretania, ex -
Queen)
Craigrownie (1870-1898, later Duke
of
Edinburgh)
Crestawave (1888-1939, ex- Fusilier, ex- Lady Orme)
Crested Eagle
(1925-1940)
Cruising Queen (1903-1935, ex-Cleethorpes)
Cynthia (1892-1930 in British waters - to the Republic of Ireland. Wrecked in 1933)
Dandie Dinmont
(1866-1902)
Dandie Dinmont (1895-1936 later
Frodingham)
Denbigh (1860-1863 in British waters - to USA as blockade runner)
Devonia (1905-1940)
Diana Vernon (1885-1914 in British
waters, later Worthing Belle - to Turkey as
Tuzla)
Duchess of Albany (1889-1928)
Duchess of Connaught (1884-1910)
Duchess of Cornwall
(1896-1949, ex - Duchess of
York)
Duchess of Devonshire
(1892-1934)
Duchess of Edinburgh (1884-1910)
Duchess of Fife
(1903-1953)
Duchess of Fife (1899-1928)
Duchess of Hamilton
(1890-1915)
Duchess of Kent
(later Clacton Queen then
Jubilee Queen, Jubilee)
Duchess of Montrose
(1902-1917)
Duchess of Norfolk
(1911-1967, later
Embassy)
Duchess of Richmond (1910-1915)
Duchess of Rothesay
(1895-1946)
Duchess of York
(1884-1920, ex - Jeanie Deans, later Isle of
Cumbrae)
Duchess of York (1896-1949,
later Duchess of
Cornwall)
Duke of Cambridge (1866-1898 ex -
Ardgowan)
Duke of Connaught (1866-1888 ex -
Ardencaple)
Duke of Devonshire
(1896-1968, later
Consul)
Duke of Edinburgh (1870-1898 ex -
Craigrownie)
Duke of Teck (1866-1889 ex -
Levan)
Eagle (1898-1928)
Eagle III
(1910-1946)
Earl Godwin (1905-1929, later
Queen Mary
Earl of Dunraven (1888-1917)
Edinburgh Castle
(1879-1913)
Edinburgh Castle (1886-1918)
Edmund Ironside (1905-1914 in
British waters - to Mesopotamia on war
service)
Embassy (1911-1967, ex -
Duchess of
Norfolk)
Emerald (1857-1871 in British waters - to
Spain)
Emperor of India (1906-1957, ex -
Princess Royal)
Empress (1879-1958)
Empress (1893- 1917 in British waters - to Ireland and later Spain
Erin (1864-1896)
Erin's
Isle (1912-1919)
Essex Queen
(1897-1951, ex -Walton Belle, later Pride of
Devon)
Express (1843-1878)
Express (1892-1898)
Fair Maid (1884-1945, ex - Isle
of Skye, ex - Madge
Wildfire)
Fair Maid
(1915-1916 - lost without having sailed in peacetime service)
Fairy Queen (1862-1891, ex - Queen
of the Orwell)
Fitzailwin (1905-1916 in British waters
- to Mesopotamia on war service)
Forth (1846-1876)
Francis Drake (1905-1909 in British
waters - to Belgium as Wilford
I)
Freshwater
(1927-1962, later Sussex Queen, then Swanage
Queen)
Frodingham (1895-1936, ex -
Dandie Dinmont)
Fusilier (1888-1939, later Lady Orme, Crestawave)
Gairlochy (1861-1919, ex - Ardmore, ex -
Sultan)
Galatea (1889-1906 in British waters -
to Italy, scrapped in 1913)
Gareloch (1872-1906, later Wemyss Castle)
Gem (1839-1889)
Gibbon (1905-1909 in British waters - to
Bari, Italy as Mafalda
Glen Avon
(1912-1944)
Glen Gower
(1922-1960)
Glen Rosa
(1877-1921)
Glen Rosa
(1893-1939)
Glen Sannox
(1892-1925)
Glen Usk
(1914-1963)
Glenmore (1895-1896 in British waters - to
Russia as Oryol)
Golden Eagle
(1909-1951)
Gracie Fields
(1936-1940)
Greenore Queen (1896-1928, later Cloughmore, later Ribble Queen)
Gresham (1905-1909 in British
waters - to East Prussia as Beethoven, then as Hluboka at Prague and Smialy in
Poland)
Greyhound (1895-1923 in British waters - to Turkey as Buyuk Ada)
Grimsby (1889-1923)
Guy Mannering
(1877-1913, ex - Sheila, later Isle of
Bute)
Gwalia (1905-1940,
later Lady Moyra then Brighton
Queen)
Halcyon (1887-1906 in British waters - to
Germany as Cuxhaven - scrapped in 1919)
Her Majesty
(1885-1940)
Highland Queen (1912-1936, ex - Brocklesby)
Hoboken (1873-1898)
Iona (1864-1936)
Isle of Arran
(1892-1936)
Isle of Bute
(1877-1913 ex - Guy Mannering, ex -
Sheila)
Isle of Cumbrae
(1884-1920, ex - Duchess of York, ex - Jeanie
Deans)
Isle of Skye (1886-1945, ex -
Madge Wildfire, later Fair
Maid)
Ivanhoe (1880-1919)
Jeanie Deans (1884-1920,
later Duchess of York then Isle of Cumbrae)
Jeanie Deans (1931-1968, later Queen
of the South)
John Stirling (1876-1899)
Jubilee Queen (ex -
Clacton Queen, ex - Duchess of
Kent)
Juno
(1898-1932)
Juno
(1937-1941)
Jupiter (1877-1905, ex- Lord of the
Isles, later Lady of the
Isles)
Jupiter
(1896-1935)
Jupiter
(1937-1961)
Kenilworth (1898-1938)
Killingholme (1912-1945)
King Alfred (1905-1909 in British waters
- to Germany as Memel and later Hansa - scrapped in
1965)
Kingswear Castle
(1924-date)
Koh-i-Noor (1892-1918)
Kylemore (1897-1940, ex - Vulcan, ex -
Britannia)
Kyles (1865-1888 later Albert
Edward)
La Marguerite
(1894-1925)
Lady Clare (1891-1928)
Lady Evelyn (1900-1940,
later Brighton
Belle)
Lady
Gwendoline (1889-1890, to Hamburg as Ariadne, later as tender at
Cherbourg then to Istanbul as Milas, Denizli and Hayrullah - scrapped
in 1926)
Lady Ismay
(1911-1915)
Lady Margaret (1870-1898, ex -
Carrick Castle, later Lord
Tredegar)
Lady Margaret (1883-1903)
Lady Margaret
(1895-1923)
Lady Moyra
(1905-1940, ex - Gwalia, later Brighton Queen)
Lady Orme (1888-1939, ex- Fusilier, later Crestawave)
Lady of the Isles (1877-1905, ex -
Jupiter, ex - Lord of the
Isles
Lady of the Lake
(1861-1887)
Lady Rowena
(1891-1922)
Laguna Belle (1896-1946,
ex - Southend
Belle)
Laverock (1889-1908 in British waters - to
Bordeaux, France as Ville de Royan - scrapped in 1922)
Levan (1886-1889, later Duke of
Teck)
Lincoln Castle
(1940-2010)
London Belle
(1893-1929)
Lord Aberdour (1866-1900)
Lord Elgin (1876-1955)
Lord Mar (1886-1889 in British waters - to Brazil)
Lord Nelson (1896-1913 in Bristish waters - to France as Jersey)
Lord of the Isles
(1861-1889)
Lord of the Isles (1877-1905, later
Jupiter then Lady of the
Isles)
Lord of the Isles
(1891-1928)
Lord Tredegar (1870-1898, ex - Lady
Margaret, ex - Carrick Castle)
Lorna Doone
(1891-1948)
Lorna Doone (1916-1952, ex - Queen
of Kent, ex - HMS
Atherstone)
Lucy Ashton
(1888-1951)
Lune (1892-1923, later Melcombe Regis)
Madge Wildfire (1886-1945, later
Isle of Skye, then Fair
Maid)
Maid of the Loch
(1953-date)
Majestic (1911-1916)
The Marchioness (1888-1913)
Marchioness of
Bredalbane
(1890-1937)
Marchioness of Bute
(1890-1923)
Marchioness of Lorne
(1891-1923)
Marchioness of Lorne
(1935-1955)
Marlowe (1905-1911 in British waters - to the
River Rhein, Germany)
Marmion (1906-1941)
Marquis of Bute
(1868-1908)
Mars (1902-1918)
Mauretania (1902-1939,
ex - Queen, later Corfe
Castle)
Mavis (1888-1915)
Medina (1852-1883, ex - The
Times)
Medway Queen
(1924-1963 in service, deconstructed in 2006 and built new in 2013)
Meg Merrilies (1883-1902 in
British waters - to Brazil as Maua. Scrapped in
1921)
Meg Merrilies (1866-1867 in British
waters - to Turkey as Nussetiyah. Scrapped
1908)
Melcombe Regis (1892-1923, ex- Lune)
Mercury
(1892-1933)
Mercury
(1934-1940)
Merstone (1928-1952)
Minerva (1893-1917 as British vessel -
captured by Turkish navy in 1917 and used in Turkey)
Monarch (1924-1961, ex -
Shanklin)
Morris (1905-1909 in British waters)
Nelson (1875-1905)
Neptune (1892-1917)
Norfolk (1901-1935)
Normandy (1882-1909)
Olaf (1905-1910 in British waters - to
Lake Lugano as Svizzera. Scrapped
1925)
Old Caledonia (1934-1980, ex -
Caledonia)
Oriole (1888-1912 in British waters - to the
Netherlands as a hulk)
Palmerston (1864-1899, later
Bangor Castle)
Paris
(1875-1892, later Flamingo, Glendale)
Pearl (1844-1875)
Pepys (1905-1913 in British
waters - to Lyon, France as Ville de Valence)
Philomel (1889-1913)
Plymouth Belle (1895-1899 in British
waters - to Germany as Willkommen, later Cuxhaven - scrapped in
1929)
Portsdown (1928-1941)
Pride of Devon
(1897-1951, ex -Essex Queen, ex -Walton
Belle)
Pride of the Waters (1840-1872, later
Ruby)
Prince Leopold (1876-1908,
later Rhosneigr)
Prince of Wales
(1891-1938)
Princess Alice (1865-1878)
Princess Beatrice (1880-1933)
Princess Elizabeth
(1927-date)
Princess Helena (1883-1952)
Princess Margaret (1893-1928)
Princess Mary (1911-1919)
Princess May (1893-1902 in British
waters - to Sorrento, Italy as Principessa Jolanda and later operating at Odessa)
Princess of Wales (1888)
Princess of Wales (1896-1928)
Princess Patricia
(1905-1938, ex - Shakespeare)
Princess Royal (1906-1957, later
Emperor of India)
Purcell (1905-1902 in British waters - to
Belgrade, Serbia)
Queen (1848-1876)
Queen (1902-1939, later
Mauretania then Corfe Castle
Queen Mary (1905-1929, ex -
Earl Godwin)
Queen of Kent (1916-1952, ex - HMS
Atherstone, later Lorna Doone)
Queen of Southend,
(1898-1948, ex -Yarmouth Belle, later Thames Queen)
Queen of Thanet (1864-1890, ex
- Carham)
Queen of Thanet
(1916-1951, ex - HMS Melton, later Solent Queen)
Queen of the North (1895-1917)
Queen of the Orwell (1862-1891,
later Fairy Queen)
Queen of the South (1891-1932, ex -
Woolwich Belle)
Queen of the South (1931-1968, ex -
Jeanie Deans)
Queen of the Thames
(1861-1889)
Queen-Empress (1912-1946)
Raleigh (1905-1914 in British waters - to
Belgium)
Ravenswood (1891-1955)
Redgauntlet (1895-1919 in British
waters - to Algeria)
Rennie (1905-1914 in British waters - to
Belgium)
Rhos Colwyn (1889-1912 in British waters,
ex - Tantallon Castle, ex - Sussex Belle, later Westonia then
Tintern)
Rhos Colwyn (1875-1911, ex - Viceroy)
Rhosneigr (1876-1908, ex -
Prince Leopold)
Rhos Trevor
(1876-1921 in British waters, ex - Carisbrooke, later St Trillo - to
Spain as San Telmo)
Ribble Queen (1896-1928, ex- Greenore, later Cloughmore)
Royal Eagle (1932-1953)
Royal Sovereign (1893-1930)
Ruby (1840-1872, ex - Pride of the Waters)
Ryde (1937-date, preserved as Ryde Queen and later Ryde, but derelict as of 2021)
St Elian (1872-1915, ex -
Southampton)
St Elvies (1896-1931)
St Trillo
(1876-1921 in British waters, ex - Rhos Trevor, ex - Carisbrooke - to
Spain as San Telmo)
St Tudno (1889-90 in British waters, to Germany as Cobra)
St
Tudno (1891-1922)
Sandown (1934-1966)
Sapphire (1860-1873 in British waters - to
Spain)
Scotia (1880-1899 in British waters - to
Naples, Italy as Principessa Mafalda, then Epomeo, sunk in 1914
Shakespeare (1905-1938,
later Princess Patricia)
Shanklin (1924-1961, later
Monarch)
Sheila (1877-1913,
later Guy Mannering then Isle of Bute)
Slieve
Bearnagh (1894-1923)
Slieve Donard (1893-1922, later
Albion)
Sloane (1905-1909 in British waters - possibly
sold to Germany)
Snowdon (1892-1931)
Solent Queen
(1889-1948)
Solent Queen (1916-1951, ex - Queen of
Thanet, ex - HMS Melton)
Southend Belle (1896-1946,
later Laguna Belle)
Southsea (1930-1941)
Southwold Belle (1900-1913 in
British waters - to Germany as Westerland, France then Italy - scrapped in
1925)
Southampton (1872-1915, later St
Elian)
Stirling Castle (1884-1898)
Stirling Castle
(1899-1916)
Strathmore (1897-1945, later HMS Harlequin)
Sultan (1861-1919, later Ardmore then
Gairlochy)
Sultana (1868-1900 in British waters - to Cherbourg. Scrapped in 1907)
Sussex Belle (1889-1912 in British waters,
ex - Tantallon Castle, later Rhos Colwyn, Westonia and Tintern)
Sussex Queen
(1927-1962, ex - Freshwater, later Swanage
Queen)
Swanage Queen
(1927-1962, ex - Sussex Queen, ex - Freshwater)
Talisman (1896-1934)
Talisman * (1935-1967)
Tantallon Castle (1887-1898 in British
waters - to Constantinople as Ferrah)
Tantallon Castle (1899-1912 in British
waters, later Sussex Belle, Rhos Colwyn, Westonia and Tintern)
Tattershall Castle
(1934-date)
Thames Queen (1898-1948 ex
- Queen of Southend, ex -Yarmouth
Belle)
Thane of Fife (1847-1891 in British waters - to Bergen, Norway as Torsten)
The Mermaid (1891-1928)
The Times (1852-1883, later
Medina)
Thomas More (1905-1909 in
British waters - to Belgium as Wilford II)
Tintern (1889-1912 in British waters, ex -
Westonia, ex - Rhos Colwyn, ex - Sussex Belle, ex - Tantallon
Castle)
Totnes Castle (1923-1967)
Turner (1905-1909 in British waters - to the
Rhein, Germany
Vale of Clwyd (1865-1888)
Vanbrugh (1905-1909 in British waters - to
Rouen, France as Boieldieu)
Vectis (1866-1911)
Velindra (1860-1896)
Viceroy (1875-1911, later Rhos Colwyn)
Victoria
(1881-1900)
Victoria (1886-1900
)
Vulcan (1897-1940, ex - Britannia, later
Kylemore)
Walton Belle
(1897-1951, later Essex Queen, then Pride of
Devon)
Waverley
(1885-1921)
Waverley
(1899-1940)
Waverley (1907-1941 ex -
Barry)
Waverley (1946-date)
Westward Ho (1894-1946)
Weymss Castle (1872-1906, ex - Gareloch)
Whippingham (1930-1963)
Whittington (1905-1909 in British
waters - to Russia)
William Muir (1879-1937)
Wingfield Castle (1934-date)
Woolwich Belle (1891-1932, later
Queen of the South)
Worthing Belle (1885-1914 in British
waters, ex - Diana Vernon - to Turkey as Tuzla)
Yarmouth Belle (1898-1948,
later Queen of Southend, then Thames
Queen)
EARLY CLYDE STEAMERS :
Captain James Williamson, in his book "Clyde Passenger Steamers
1812-1901" lists turbine steamer TS King Edward as the 309th Clyde
Steamer, following PS Comet of 1812. Prior to 1866 and the
inauguration of services by the North British Railway, Williamson
lists 234 vessels.
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