Clyde Steamers's documents

A companion volume to Captain James Williamson's "Clyde Passenger Steamer" and Andrew McQueen's "Clyde Steamers of The Last Fifty Years".

This long out-of-print list of MacBrayne's bus fleet and its ships of the corresponding period is an important "standard reference" for all those who have an interest in Scotland's "Road To The Isles".

Take 'The Road to The Isles' of The West Coast of Scotland with MacBrayne's buses as they ran through the mid-1950's - Compare the fares of the 1950's with the fares now charged by today's operators.

Take 'The Road to The Isles' of The West Coast of Scotland with MacBrayne's ships and buses as they ran through the summer of 1970 - Compare the fares of 1970 with the fares now charged by today's operator, CalMac.

The pages here draw from a 1947-published, 5th edition of The Clyde Cruising Club's "Sailing Directions for The West Coast of Scotland", the 'characteristics' of all the lighthouses and buoys described in the 1947-published guide removed from the pages here for obvious reasons as the characteristics of lights and buoys are liable to alteration from year to year and reference should always be ...

With the celebration of The 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar in 2005 and the continuing popularity of books by Captain Marryat, Dudley Pope, Alexander Kent, Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester, many of the latter’s ‘Hornblower’ stories being produced for television in a £14m series, it seemed useful and appropriate to provide some detail about the ships and the crews, the ‘men-of-war’ of Nels...

EXTRACT OF CLYDE STEAMER TIMETABLES from MURRAY'S ABC TIME TABLE for August 1st - September 4th, 1966 - And, to make better sense of the timetables, both a 1966 calendar AND a set of sun and moon rise and set tables AND tide tables have been extracted too.

Welcome to MURRAY'S ABC TIME TABLE for August 1st - September 4th, 1966 containing Air Guide - Rail Services - Calendar and Bank Holidays - Glasgow Holidays - Holidays & Fast Days - Hotel Guide - Sun & Moonrise & Set - Steamers on The Clyde - Suburban Train Services - Tide Tables - Trains from & to Glasgow - 160 pages

A complete, almost 'Titanic', guide to the ships of The Royal Navy and British merchant ships and their routes.

A ship spotter's guide with outline drawings of all the post-war paddle and turbine steamers, beam on, stern and bow on, published in 1948 to coincide with the amalgamation of the Clyde Steamer fleets.

Published in 1825, this Google-digitised copy of the 1838-published 7th edition, from page 339, includes a guide to the principal steamboat tours of the age.

ISBN 0-9522786-9-3 and Copyrighted in 2004, this little timetable document for the "armchair" Clyde Steamer enthusiast sets out the general pattern of Clyde timetables prior to the start of World War I - Take a trip down time.

Originally laid out in booklet form, here is a mass of detail for the "armchair" the Clyde Steamer enthusiast and for all those "Waverley" and "Balmoral" supporters.

Given the 200th anniversary of the appearance of Henry Bell's "Comet", here is the story of Robert Fulton's steamboat and others on America's Hudson River.

While Chapter 7 focuses on the music of the Clyde Steamer bands, it is hoped that this promotion of Stuart Eydmann's Open University thesis might encourage others to play the concertina.

Chapter 7 of "The Life and Times of The Concertina", highlights the Clyde Steamer Bands and Willie Smith who played the "Vital Spark" and "The Maggie" film music.

Published in 1839, this Google-digitised "Stranger's Guide To The Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland" also includes voyages from Leith to London and Glasgow to Belfast and Liverpool etc..

Captain Williamson's 1904-published book gives a complete overview of all the Clyde Steamers from the appearance of Henry Bell's 1812 "Comet" to the appearance of the 1901 "King Edward".