Steamships on the Clyde. Jeanie Deans, Waverley, Queen Mary and Talisman to name a few. The Highland Games Cowal Highland Gathering 1964. King George V sailing to Iona.
Great video. I can see my father who was Chief Engineer on the Caledonia from around 1954 until she was withdrawn in 1969. Shortly afterwards, when the Chief on the Waverley retired, my father was asked to become her Chief, and was so until she was sold to the Trust for £1. I spent two wonderful summer seasons working as Deck Boy on the fabulous Duchess of Hamilton. Thanks for the memories.
That is one of the best films I've ever seen of the old Clyde steamers and managed to capture the real feeling of being there. Superb quality of film too for that era and just a joy to watch. Can't thank you enough!
I have thurly enjoyed this great video, what a thrill to see some of🎉 these old Clyde river steamers & only the Waverley remains, so thanks for posting this video of these great steamer s
What an amazing clip. I often read about those great Clyde Steamers and just wish I was born a few years earlier as they were extremely handsome ships. Almost like mini ocean liners. Thanks for posting
Brilliant film really capturing the atmosphere. Went on Queen Mary and my Dad got me into the engine room, he was ex Navy. Great experience for a young lad about nine.
Excellent footage. The camera is so steady, the shots are so clear, the scenes well composed and balanced. The colours have kept stable for 60 years. The Jeanie and the Montrose were both withdrawn at the end of the 64 season. It's nice to see the Jeanie's paddles inside the box at full speed through the porthole in he engine room alleyway. They apparently had a higher rpm than the Waverley and she had been quite a flyer when first built.
I remember being just like those kids on the paddle steamers, don't seem that long ago. They like me will be old and grey. Thanks for posting this wonderful video, it's made this old man very happy👍👍
Oh wow! That's so lovely to know. I'm also in my 60s and have many happy memories of trips on the Clyde steamers. I had close relatives who were Captains and so got to go up on the bridge! Huge treat!
Lovely. And all those steamers, a shame they are not still around. Thanks for keeping them on film. Long will they be remembered with their many passengers. Happy days. Many thanks. Rmb5*
Welshman here, never been to Scotland but very familiar with those wonderful ships! Up until the early 2000s and for about 30 years, every summer my folks, their friends and neighbours from Swansea, Wales, would take either the Balmoral or the Waverley over to Ilfracombe, Devon, for a wonderful summer's day out. I believe it still runs, both vessels being refurbished I believe although sadly, my folks and friends have now departed and I now live in S.E Asia. Wonderful memories of lovely summer days, all through the 70s, 80s and 90s. Thanks for the upload, lovely footage of noble vehicles.
Great film of that period. Saw the Waverley calling in at Whitstable 3 weeks ago! Once went to Tighnabruach in 1960 on the Talisman from Gourock, when on a school holiday to Scotland from London. I can also recall seeing the trams in Glasgow. I was 11 at the time, but that trip has always stayed with me as the best day of the holiday! Coincidentally my first job when leaving school was in the Marine Dept of the old Board of Trade and my role was typing and sending out of these ships' annual passenger certificates renewals.
What fabulous footage. Thanks so much for posting it. Lovely to see all the old steamers, took me back to those days. King George V was my favourite turbine and I was lucky enough to have steamed yet again on Waverley last week. Wonderful memories......
Thanks for sharing your home movies, we moved to Dunoon in 1964 when I was twelve. The pier and the games was really something , the summers during the 60s were so full of life, good times.
An absolutely amazing video, brought me back to my childhood memories of holidays in Lochranza and Oban. I sailed to Campbeltown on the Duchess of Hamilton, sailed on the King George V from Oban, and once when she worked a season on the Clyde. Also on the Queen Mary 2nd and Waverley. I've sailed on Waverley recently and hope to sail on Queen Mary when she's restored. And hopefully on the Maid of the Loch too.
I fondly remember sailing down ri Clyde to Rothsay from Glasgow, on the paddle steamer Waverly, when I was a bairn, and the seagulls scoring bull's eyes on the old folks heeds, and then stealing my sandwich! Eye rey shur wur ri days, Jimmy! Also, can any one remember the Oor Willie cartoon,in ri back af ri Sunday Post???😂😅😂😅❤
Great and wonderful footage - thank you!! As my dear (late) Mum (from Kirkintilloch) would have said - "Och, not yesterday son...! When she was a child, the family would take a house at Millport for the summer, to which I never asked how they got there (the days before the car ferry from Largs!) and suspect it might have been by one of these steamers from Glasgow? They were happy memories, nonetheless.
Do you know where the original footage for this is located? My grandfather, who passed away many years ago, was chief engineer on the one of the steamships and my father reckons you can see him on deck shortly before the 8 minute mark.
