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Waverley Steaming Round Wight
£14.95Add to cartWaverley is recorded on a sailing from Portsmouth and Yarmouth around the Isle of Wight. Fully revised and updated for 2024 – to celebrate 50 years of Waverley in preservation.
Contains views of Yarmouth Harbour, The Needles, the cliffs of Tennyson Down and the ‘Back of the Wight Coast’ to St Catherine’s Point.
Waverley steams on past Ventnor, Shanklin, Sandown, Culver Cliff, Bembridge, the Solent Forts, glimpses of Osborne House and the Cowes waterfront on her way back to Yarmouth Pier.
Includes archive footage of paddle steamer Embassy in the 1960s and diesel electric paddle vessel Farringford in the 1950s. -
Waverley On Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
£14.95Add to cartA sailing by paddle steamer Waverley from Bournemouth to Weymouth. Now revised to include an interview with actor and PSPS Patron, Timothy West CBE at the celebration of the reopening of Swanage Pier in 2019, following restoration of the Pier with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The film has footage of St Aldhelm’s Head, Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door with a walkabout of Weymouth Harbour with maritime historian Richard Clammer and a visit to Lulworth Cove, with memories of calls at the Cove by PS Consul and her earlier fleetmates. Includes archive footage of PS Embassy and PS Consul in the 1960s -
Waverley on London’s River
£14.95Add to cartReleased in 2018 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Waverley’s first
Thames visit. We join the steamer at Gravesend for an up river sailing to London, passing under the QE2 Bridge, sailing past the high rise buildings of Canary Wharf, historic Greenwich and the excitement of Tower Bridge opening for the ship before she turns just below London Bridge. Includes archive footage of Waverley’s first Thames visit in 1978, Eagle Steamers’ MV Royal Sovereign and PS Jeanie Deans as ‘Queen of the South’. We’re joined by maritime historian Peter Box for the history of Thames sailings since early Victorian days. -
Kingswear Castle: A Voyage Through Her Life
£14.95Add to cartWith footage of the steamer sailing on the waters of her native River Dart recorded in 2013 and 2015, this is the story of the steamer’s life – which celebrates 100 years afloat in 2024. Includes footage of her restoration, her return to service and her Medway steaming years from 1984 until 2012. KC’s story is recalled with interviews with the key people involved in her restoration, in her operation on the Medway and today’s sailings on the River Dart. A comprehensive history of Britain’s very last coal-fired paddle steamer.
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Balmoral’s 60th Birthday: A Celebration
£14.95Add to cartThis DVD has footage recorded aboard heritage classic motor vessel Balmoral on 27 June 2009. The day was sponsored by her original owners, Red Funnel Ferries, as the ship celebrated her 60th birthday by sailing from Southampton, Portsmouth and Cowes, around the Isle of Wight. Interviews with passengers and crew. Includes archive footage.