26-07-2021, 09:50 AM
"Proper steamers to the IOW"
The bars on the old paddle steamers were a window to a lost world as was the engineering which ran down the centre of the interior. Brass works of art. The last time I went on one it had developed an alarming list and barely made it over with one paddle almost out of the water. In fact we could have gone around in circles until the coal ran out.
The bars on the old paddle steamers were a window to a lost world as was the engineering which ran down the centre of the interior. Brass works of art. The last time I went on one it had developed an alarming list and barely made it over with one paddle almost out of the water. In fact we could have gone around in circles until the coal ran out.