Waverley - The World's LAST Seagoing Paddle Steamer 

I went on the Waverly approx 43 years ago when I was a school kid in Fort William, Scotland. Memories

This brings back memories of Weymouth, Dorset when the Waverley was there.

Thanks Lorna. Absolutely loved it 👏🌟👍😃 Joan

Beautiful Vessel.

Excellent ------ thank you

Nicely done. Thank you.

Great video, thanks for sharing 👍

Only cruised on Waverley once and that was around the Isle of Wight in 2005. Really need to go on her again.

I personally don't see the waverly steamship that often but when I do see her usually on the west coast of scotland, she is a magnificent old lady, and worth stopping for a look.

Great video and extremely good and informative narrative. Thanks. Rmb

Lovely Lorna does a wonderful job on the video!

😊👍 I had a trip on the Waverly, with my Boy Scout troop, when it was on the Clyde, about 66 years ago, when I was 12 years old. So this brought back some memories.😊 .

Wow what an amazing lovely old boat . She cracks along at a good pace too !!

A brilliant video. I saw the Waverley many years ago in Scotland, and have always had a yearnig to travel on it. I have been on the Earnslaw paddle steamer in Queenstown, New Zealand though, it very similar. Keep up the great content. Many thanks. David in Dudley.

Lovely vid, thank you Lorna

Thank you for sharing

I've done this trip so many times over the past 50 years and your video did it justice. Thanks for a great vicarious excursion!

That was an amazing video, absolutely beautiful ship and some fascinating views too 😊

She is steaming well this year 2023.....Wonderful experience Clevedon to Ilfracombe ....Hopefully River Thames later on ???..

Great video thank you me and my wife went on the Waverley a couple of times from Ilfracombe, she’s a fantastic boat xx

What is that fabulous music, please? SO right with your lovely video.

An amazing steamer I spent 30th birthday on her you passed my home town gravesend she is in portland harbour today amazing the journeys she is still making a friend was also a chef abord her many years ago all the best donnyx

Great vlog, and nice music. Jazz is never wrong. The oldest paddelsteamer on a lake is in my home country, Norway. Skibladner started service in 1854! She is still going, but she had to cancel most of the season this summer due to some trouble with a shaft or something like that. Keep up the good work. Be safe. Greetings from Norway!

Great video.. 👍

Glad you enjoyed your day on Waverly. I have enjoyed many trips on her and also Balmoral on the Bristol Channel incuding going under Clifton Suspension Bridge, not quit as famouse as Tower Bridge but still an awsome sight.

I am very fortunate to live on the west coast of Scotland (Skelmorlie) and I hear the Waverley before I see it

I love the Waverly too! So immaculately shiny throughout, & lovely Art Deco features in the 'dining room' (though when we went on it along the south west coast, there were no meals.) Gorgeous, I really enjoyed your video, thanks!

Very interesting!

Next time come ro Scotland and do the trip round the islands. Truly magnificent. Enjoyed your video. Keep safe. Mx

So pleased you kindly shared your Waverley trip excitement. Thank you. 😊

We Done Clacton to Tower Pier a couple weeks ago and arrived at night seeing the Thames is just so different and the Waverley is a fabulous old girl.

Thanks for the video. We did this very same trip last Saturday. A wonderful trip and like you we are going to do it all again next year - hopefully.

Thanks, really enjoyable. Missed out on this years trip but its on my to-do list for next!

Wow glad they atleast kept one but what a beautiful ship

Great video .. this is quite a famous ship. I remember as a child taking a river trip with my parents on the River Clyde .. I'm 99% sure it was on the Waverley. Popped over to see your channel from Jen.

Wow i loved that video, love travelling on the Thames on the Clippers so that's definitely a step up ! 😍

Wow Lorna, just wow!! I think I need to watch again on my TV. The river looks very wide. I guess I'm use to our Susquehanna River. It's give or take 1 mile wide. The Waverly is beautiful, thank you for sharing.

Enjoyed the trip down the Thames on this stunning boat, also I've sewn Tower Bridge a few times but never raised, great video

Love your video…..best I’ve watched in ages👍

What an amazing vessel, such an interesting cruise, thanks so much Lorna Jane.

YEEESS! The SP Waverley!! I saw it last year,full steam ahead,in Greenwich,right by its ancestor,the Cutty Sark! Sadly,I heard that it ran aground on the rocks off the Scottish coast,had to be towed back to shore😞

"carrying passengers along loch long" That's easy for you to say 😃

i was on this as a kid in the 1960,s ,my uncle was a fireman/boilerman on her.

I love your adventures Lorna Jane. You always have something interesting and unique to share.

This was such a wonderful vlog..Im so happy that you are able to enjoy the life you have...Its very special Lorna.as are you.. I loved this...Thank youvso very much...ROCK ON...!!😊😊😊♥️

Waverley was in Southampton last month and I was lucky to travel on her along the Jurassic Coast to Lulworth Cove. It was majestic travelling at that speed virtually silently. Glorious weather made it a grand day out!!😊

Very nice

She's actually the world's last Ocean Going Paddle Steamer.

Loved the shot of your trainers. How quirky and neat. Carry on Lorna!!

Excellent vlog. A voyage on Waverley is such an experience. Missed her in Penarth this year.

This is fantastic! Have you sailed on the Steamship Shieldhall? She and Waverley met up last year. It was beautiful to see the two of them together.

Wow, Lucky You. She is a beautiful vessel and what a beautiful engine. The reason paddle boats went out of favour is because of two reasons really, the efficiency of the screw propeller and the fact that in a rolling sea sometimes the paddles on one side would come out of the water.

This was an amazing trip on a fantastic and historic ship! So glad that she has been saved, and I would love to go on her too. I can see why this would be one of your best days ever Lorna. Thank you for bringing this for us to see! Take care, Paul.

That is a beautiful bridge.

Great trip with excellent commentary.

Another excellent instalment, thanking you again 😇

I have fond memories of Waverley. Back in the 80’s my school did a school trip to beat all other school trips…especially for someone like myself with an interest even from a young age in boats, trains, planes and infrastructure! We visited Kielder to see the reservoir under construction, went to Newcastle airport to see their new fire engine with foam cannon in action, took a ride on the just opened Metro system, then finished with a trip down the Tyne on Waverley. I excitedly took pictures of the whole trip on a Russian 35mm camera my parents bought me….. and which I lost at some point on Waverley or on the trip home…😞

Happy memories of travelling on the Waverly around 55-60 years ago in the west of Scotland.

Wow what an amazing trip and ship. Yet another thing to add to the bucket list! Thanks for taking us along.

Wonderful. I travelled on her quite a few years ago from Ilfracombe out to Lundy Island. She had crossed over from South Wales to Ilfracombe. A magic ship. Thanks so much for posting.

Age's ago I went on a trip on the Waverly. It was to Lundy Island from North Devon.

Most interesting.Thank you.

brilliant video the views along the Thames looks amazing from the boat

Great video, looking forward to going on the Waverley myself. You didn't mention the Woolwhich ferry

Thanks for the excellent video. My late dad loved The Waverly. I have his books with all her history and World War two action.

I went on that boat about 50 years ago from clacton pier

Very nice informative video I did the mon 3rd Oct trip

I remember sailing on her in the early eighties from Penarth pier. They had a song playing all the time. “We’re all going on the Waverley a good old ship is the Waverley” 😂

Had a trip on the Waverley in 1978. Went from Southend out on the North Sea to see Radio Caroline. (MV Mi Amigo) Happy days.

I remember taking 2 Canadian girl friends on the Waverley from Southend to the pool of London and back to Southend. A great day out.

Went on her in the sixties from Grimsby to Spurn Point, two hours each way, very pleasant to be aboard her.

She comes into whitstable , she’s a magnificent vessel . Haven’t been on a trip yet put taken loads of photos of her .

Tower Bridge is also my Absolute Favourite London structure. When I first saw it raised, I cried. I was SO proud of this iconic bridge and it annoys me immensely when people call it London Bridge - same as St Paul's Church - it's a CATHEDRAL not a church !! 🙄

Very cool! Enjoyed that little trip, thanks for taking us along. 😉

She goes from Penarth to Clevedon pier. I love Clevedon pier... Its around 100 miles from home... So the Waverley cruises the Bristol channel......

Nice to see a video of Waverley on the Thames. Glad you had a good trip.

What an awesome trip on an amazing boat! I want to go!!

Great tour, thanks

i did enjoy that very much and am looking forward to the completion of your stumpy narrow boat as well.

Amazing video, riding a boat down the Thames looks like an awesome thing to do. :)

There at 6:50, mentioning Tilbury Docks brings to mind that some railway at some point had a steam locomotive type named 'Tilbury tank'. It is 04:27 am here in the US midwest and I'd have to Google the details of the Tilbury Tank locomotive, even which railway used it as the railway geek portion of my brain seems to be asleep. (like I wish the rest of me was)

Strange to hear you call her Waverly I know here as The Waverly, She's looking great, before the Preservation Trust bought her she was going downhill, purchase price was one pound, sterling! Great vlog as usual Lorna

Missing her in Wales

To date I’ve only managed to get the normal Thames river boat from Westminster down as far as the O2. That journey was scenic enough (for a tourist to London) and far nicer than getting the tube. Thanks for taking us along, great video as always.

Great video - pity the weather was a bit overcast. We did the trip from Harwich to Tower Pier last week, which was fascinating (especially all the WW2 forts in the middle of the Estuary). Pity there were no narrowboats to see at Gravesend pier....

You go girl!

I Love your choice of music to accompany your video. When the passengers of WAVERLY, all crowed over to look at the pilot boat, did she roll due to the load wanting to watch?

Such a great video! Both the ship and the Thames are beautiful and exciting! It really adds to the list of London experiences I hope to enjoy when I finally get back to the city. One day, but no idea when.

Lovely vessel! Has anyone ever put paddle wheels on a narrow boat?

Very good, well done.

This used to turn up in Brighton in late summer for evening cruises up and down the coast. Gives you an interesting view on your home.

Hi Lorna Jane what a interesting blog it showed so much of the Thames witch I have never seen ,what a beautiful old ship do you know how fast she goes nice landing at Southend thank you so much 😅

Good vid. Ive done many trips on the Clyde; Aug 12th to Rothesay was my last one. Hot, cloudless day - the engine room was like a sauna. Id love to cruise the Thames some day. Its back up here today and tomorrow for the last sails of the season.

Wonderful. HOWEVER, *this is not the only seaworthy paddle steamer left in the world* - or even in the UK. *The Medway Queen* is very much 'up and running' too. She can be seen in *Gillingham, Kent.*

Back in my school days (going back over fifty years) We went on a school trip by steam train, Paddle Steamer and bus. The paddle steamer was The Tattershall Castle now a floating pub on the Thames A number of schools joined up for the trip and the paddle steamer did a bit of an extended journey to the route across the Humber estuary also fog helped extend it as well I remember the Fog horn sounding continuously on the crossing.

Awesome!!

Waverly is wonderful. I'm embarrassed I haven't travelled on her before as I've known about her for so long! I intend to make a real effort to do the trip up and down the Thames on her!

Music makes me feel like I’m taking a walk with Mr Rogers to the Crayon Factory….

Why di you have to be so gorgeous xxx

Nice film, but quite sad. Part of the furniture of the clyde in the summer and always seen packed with people. You hear her coming with the noise of the paddles. Very odd to see her empty.