PLAN SOURCES

[Walter Snowdon]

I Intend over the next few weeks to list sources of plans of paddle steamers in old periodicals and Museums and Libraries which I have knowledge of. It will take some time as my computer skills are poor and my notes cover 14 sheets of foolscap.This first section is articles and plans in early UK magazines and journals, some of which can already be found in the plan section of PD.

   PLANS IN ENGINEERING MAGAZINE.

PS Mercury and Neptune.     Vol.57  Pub. June1894   Page 747.
PS Isle Of Arran                  Vol.55   ..           1893     ..    442
PS La Marguerite                 Vol.58   ..           1894

  PLANS IN ENGINEER MAGAZINE( Also known as LONDON ENGINEER)

PS Koh-I-Noor                    Published 8th July 1892.
PS Lord Of The Isles (1877)       ..           ..      7th Sept. 1877
PS Lord of the Isles  (1891)        .. 1892

  SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING RECORD

PS Shanklin                       Published 23rd April 1925
PS Royal Eagle                         ..      28th July   1932
PS Mercury and Caledonia         ..     13th March 1934 Page 268
PS Marchioness Of Lorne           ..             April   1935  ..    404
PS Jupiter and Juno                   ..     3rd  June   1937   ..    692
PS Bristol Queen                       ..     6th March  1947

   INDUSTRIES magazine

PS Lorna Doone                Published  4th Sept. 1891

  SHIPBUILDING magazine

 PS Iona (2) 1864             Published date unknown but possibly 1864/5

 Thats the start and I will add to the above as I go through my notes. Walter

[Walter Snowdon]

In 1852 there was great worry as to the needs to boost the steamer strength of the Royal  Navy in an emergency and a list of suitable mechant ships for calling up was commisioned by Parliament. This report, Published in 1852 has small but I understand accurate plans of the paddle steamer element as below.

     NAME    YEAR BUILT          BUILDER       OWNER

 PS Leith       1837                    Leith.         General Steam Navigation Co.
 PS Trident    1841                  Blackwell.         ..          ..          ..
 PS Teviot     1841                  Glasgow.      Royal West Indies Mail
                                                              Packet Co.
                                                             
 PS Citizen       ?                          ?           Iron Steam Boat Co.
 PS Prince Albert 1843             Newcastle.                                
 PS Asia        1850                  Steele.         British and North American
                                                               R.M.S.P.Co.
 PS Orinoco   1851                  Northfleet .   Royal Mail Steam Packet co
 PS Magdalena 1851                    ?                  ..               ..

[mjt60a]

                                                             
 PS Citizen       ?                          ?           Iron Steam Boat Co.

That'd be the LCC steamer? I believe one of them was named 'Citizen'....

[AlistairD]

NO these were long before the LCC Steamers, they  were named alphabetically from CITIZEN A to CITIZEN S, built 1845 to 1873.  They operated on a similar route to the LCC steamers, but initially ran upriver  to Chelsea and Kew, later to Hampton Court.
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 Alistair
 

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                    Walter Snowdon wrote:            
PS Citizen ? ? Iron Steam Boat    Co.

That'd be the LCC    steamer? I believe one of them was named 'Citizen'....


     
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(.....gonna need a bigger boat.....)


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[Walter Snowdon]

All these ships were capable of prolonged seagoing, with a view to arming them as steam corvettes or troop carriers or despatch vessels and led eventually to the programme of subsidising the building of large merchantmen capable of becoming auxiliary cruisers which reached it height during the early 20th century and during  WW1. This programme led eventualy to STUFT ships. (Ships Taken Up From Trade).  Regards, walter.