Paddleducks
Paddler Information => Research => Topic started by: ding on September 18, 2009, 11:17:46 AM
-
I'm looking for any information on the PS Stirling castle which started her life on the Firth of Forth, but in 1820 moved to sail between Inverness and Fort Augustus on the opening of the northern section of the Caledonian Canal. By the mid 1820s I think she was one of a limited number of vessels providing an “all-the way” service from Glasgow (Broomielaw) to Inverness, primarily for passengers only. Clearly, she had a short life, but just a little longer than the vessel she followed both on the Forth and the West Highland route – the pioneering Comet – and she also outlived the second Comet which by her demise in 1825 also operated as far as Inverness. She sank in Inverscaddle Bay, in Loch Linnhe.