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British Paddle Steamers 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.
Click on vessel name to see more details about the 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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