Kilted on the Waverley

[Jimmy]

I wonder if my memory serves me correctly, but did the Waverley go to Dunkirk in 1940?

You are correct Jock, as I have said in previous post, it was sunk at Dunkirk after collecting evacuees from the beaches, I'm not sure how many were killed but I think it was quite a number

[chrisupyonder]

This is how I do it.

In Photobucket, hover mouse pointer over small picture



Click on box to the right of Direct Link where it has http://etc etc.

This will copy the link.

Go back to Xmarks site and click on the little yellow box with the mountain in it.




Then another little window will open.



Click with the right hand mouse button in the space under

Please enter the URL of your image:

Then click on Paste on the drop down menu.

Click OK and your done.

Press enter/return key a couple of times to give a space for the next picture or text.

Hope this helps.

Chris.

[Peter Crowe]

The Waverley Paddle Steamer, the only surviving paddle steamer in the world has now finished it summer sailing on the Firth of Clyde, with the exception of 2 days in October, when its full season finishes. Its now on its way to Portsmouth for a few weeks after the final sail yesterday.
Yesterday's sail was supposed to be from Glasgow sailing around the Ailsa Craig of the Ayrshire coast but due to bad weather, this was cancelled and the Waverley sailed an alternative route around Bute, Cumbrae and Loch Striven.
I had been on the Waverley the last 2 Saturdays at the games in Rothesay and in Cowal, on both these occassions there were quite a number of kilts to be seen on board.
So on its last sail yesterday, I used it as an excuse to be kilted again, for the third day in a row and I think when you start wearing the kilt so often as I have done over the last few summer months you tend to feel that you want to wear it all the time.
Normally I don't take photos but on Saturday I bought a new camera so if someone can give me an idiot's guide to getting these photos on this site, I will attempt to do so.

Jimmy,
You bring back many memories of my childhood and youth when I went 'Doon the watter' on board both the PS Waverley and the TS Queen Mary (II), and also sailed the length of Loch Lomond from Balloch to Ardlui and back on the PS Maid of the Loch (on which were many old Highland gentlemen with Kilts and cromachs). My only regret was that I was too young to have ever sailed on my favourite of the Clyde Steamers, the PS Jeannie Deans. My father was a Master with Blue Funnel (Via Elder Dempster and Paddy Henderson's), and when he was asst Marine Superintendent at KGV, I saw the very end of the upper Clyde as a major port.

Thanks!

[Jimmy]

Jimmy,
You bring back many memories of my childhood and youth when I went 'Doon the watter' on board both the PS Waverley and the TS Queen Mary (II), and also sailed the length of Loch Lomond from Balloch to Ardlui and back on the PS Maid of the Loch (on which were many old Highland gentlemen with Kilts and cromachs). My only regret was that I was too young to have ever sailed on my favourite of the Clyde Steamers, the PS Jeannie Deans. My father was a Master with Blue Funnel (Via Elder Dempster and Paddy Henderson's), and when he was asst Marine Superintendent at KGV, I saw the very end of the upper Clyde as a major port.

Thanks!

Good pleasant memories, I see the Queen Mary 2 is now up for auction, I was in London a couple of years ago and it was berthed at the Embankment but empty and almost derelict, lets hope some one buys it and restores it to its former glory.
Yesterday I was on the Maid of the Loch, now berthed at Balloch, it is run by a group of optimistic volunteers who hope that it will sail again some day. My feelings are that under the present financial climate in the UK, it will be many years before it sails, if it ever does

[MacMillans son]

Once they are there and you have linked them to XMTS - do not move them - ever. If you do, the link is broken and to all intents and purposes cannot be rebuilt and we will never see them again.

Chas

Ohhhhhhhh, so is that why the old threads of Prince Charles etc. have lots of missing photos in them now? I assumed that they were time specific posts or something.

Thanks Chas, mystery solved!

[Jimmy]

The crew of the Waverley with Captain Clark at the pier of Tighnabruich on their last summer visit this year on August 27

[Jimmy]

http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/...urrent=003.jpg
Pipe Band making their way up to stadium for Cowal Games on Saturday 27 August

[Jimmy]

[Jimmy]

slowly but surely getting the idea about posting photos, thanks for the help and info, this photo is the entrance to Loch Riddon in the Kyles of Bute