Paddle Steamer Waverley on the River Thames

[@ETRuT1]

Thank you. Excellent video with good captions, no annoying commentary and perfect music.

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@melvynbond8348]

Great to see this video! I come from Dunoon on the Clyde, so see the Waverly on a regular basis. She has been cruising locally all summer. 60 years ago my first trip was to Millport!

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Rather different scenery than the Clyde 60 years ago, no doubt!

[@cedarcam]

Lovely film I really enjoyed this. I have been on Wavery in Scotland a lot of times as well as a few other places but not yet been on the Thames

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

I'm pleased you liked the video.

[@BALOYBEACHBUM]

I rode one of the Steamers from Danoon to Glasgow in the 80's, and will never forget the thrill!

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

I'm pleased this video brought back happy memories for you.

[@YARROWS9]

Used to travel on the Waverley every year with my Grandfather. Up the firth of clyde. Ardrossan- Milport- Largs. Then up loch striven.

[@lorrainehamilton5051]

She no longer calls at Ardrossan, and the town pier in Millport is now closed but she does call at the Keppel Pier (for Millport).

[@brianneale2006]

I used to go down to the Engine room where there was a special gallery where one could watch the paddles working

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

You can see that view of the paddles working in the video at 09:59.

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

That should be 09:11

[@brianneale2006]

@@bayardmachineshop3723I used to watch the paddles working whenever I went on the Waverley it was a must for me I Love ships as it is in my blood as my mothers grand father was a seaman on the sister ship of the Titanic. The Olympic and one of my mothers brothers was a able seaman on the Destroyer H.M.S. ISIS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAY. SO THE SEA IS IN MY BLOOD SO TO SPEAK

[@davepedantic]

Wasn’t the Waverley once one of the White Funnel Steamer fleet operating in the Bristol Channel making day trips from Bristol to Ilfracombe, Lundy, Newport etc?

[@bayardmachineshop3723]

No, built by the LNER to work on the Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland.

[@joe18425]

Last time I was on the waverly it had to make a full to starboard turn and it hardly even leant over. All because of a stupid nuclear submarine. Whats best is the window that looks into the paddle. Really, its like:= 👁👄👁

[@brianneale2006]

On Choppy seas the paddle steamer rolled about quite a bit

[@brianneale2006]

I Agree whole Heartedly not for choppy or rough sea most definitely not as I can vouch for it but luckily I do not suffer from sea sickness as I have sailed on Car Ferries between Dover- Ostend Dover-calais Ramsgate- Dunkirk and on the hover craft quite a few times and also on the Catamaran carrying cars between Dover- calais

[@CliffnDonChappellDuncan]

Swanage, England September 2000