Paddle Steamer the Bristol Queen
From the collection of
From the collection of
TV reporter Terry Fleet is at Weston-super-Mare and reports on his journey from Cardiff across the Bristol Channel on the paddle steamer Bristol Queen. Launched with a Bristol Cream sherry bottle on 4 April 1946 by Lady Mayoress J Owen and built by Charles Hill and Sons of Bristol, its engines were made by Rankin and Blackmore of Greenock. Enthusiasm for paddle steamers matches that for steam trains; spewed black smoke is a Turneresque romantic doff to our industrial past.