Waverley sailings cancelled

[rmcluckie]

Now being repaired after incident

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2517024.0.Waverley_in_dock_after_collision_injures_passengers.php

[Eddy Matthews]

Yet more bad new for Waverley Robert

After two years of aweful weather keeping passenger numbers down, then unexpected paddleshaft repairs, and a further time out of service for boiler repairs..... You would have thought she'd had her share of bad luck by now!

Regards
Eddy

[Tug--Kenny]

That is bad news. Hopefully there are no serious passenger injuries. A large repair bill now would be crippling news.

Are there any pictures ?

ken

[Channel]

I understand just 12 very minor passenger injuries and she'll return to service Thursday?

[rmcluckie]

Ken, there are more pictures at this site. Once in scroll down to Photos of damage in our Waverley Gallery.

http://www.inverclydenow.com/news-detail2.asp?ID=3072

Also Rob lighbody's photos show more including the deployed life rafts which rolled off the ship and inflated in the water.

[derekwarner_decoy]

Goodness PD's.......a 100,000 tonner... a sailing vessel or a paddler....all have scraps with the wharf now & then...who will not admit this?

Whilst it may be important.........lets pay less attention to the 24/7 news media...........Derek

[Channel]

Its a shame the media doesn't report on the hundreds of days the paddler carries many passengers on a wonderful day out.

Ships will always do damage - on my desk at the minute are 2 reports from ships damaging themselves coming alongside . . . . it is very common. The media love putting nails in Waverley's coffin . . . look at the history of paddle steamers around the coast all did damage from time to time. With the high number of calls they carry out their risk of doing damage is a lot higher than normal . .

[Tug--Kenny]

I understand just 12 very minor passenger injuries and she'll return to service Thursday?

Phew. Thank goodness all is well.

As other members are saying, it's publicicty that's jumped on my the media. Why should they not support her with enthusiasm. We've all bumped into something at one time or another.

ken

[djcf]

I was on the breakwater when the incident happened.
Glad no serious injuries.
Inflated rafts were taken away last night....hopefully her luck will change for the better after repairs.

[Channel]

Back in action as of yesterday. 

[djcf]

some photos I got yesterday of Waverley approaching Dunoon, just before 1300. She has to wait on the Gourock ferry leaving at 1250, before berthing. Pics taken from MV Jupiter.
Noticeable is the new plating on the port sponson forward, I see the portholes have not been cut out. Prob just wanted her sailing asap

[Tug--Kenny]

Hooray. Back in action. 

[Channel]

some photos I got yesterday of Waverley approaching Dunoon, just before 1300. She has to wait on the Gourock ferry leaving at 1250, before berthing. Pics taken from MV Jupiter.
Noticeable is the new plating on the port sponson forward, I see the portholes have not been cut out. Prob just wanted her sailing asap

They could do a campbells trick and paint them on!

With all the care that went into her rebuild to make her look as close to as built as possible it has always surprised me she retained round portholes on the boxes and not square as built . .

[djcf]

Yes, that was the Cardiff Queen I think port side near stern?
Maybe the Waverley retained the round ports on her sponsons to make her less liable to storm damage, the original rectangular windows were a bit larger? thats the only reason I can think of, as they did reinstate the rectangular ones in other areas of the hull....

[Mercury]

I think I read somewhere that there is an arcane bylaw on the Thames that paddle steamers have to have portholes and not windows on the sponsons. I believe the windows were plated up prior to her first visit to the Thames in 1978.

Of course this could be a classic paddle myth!!!