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P.S. WESTWARD HO, half hull ship model
Half hull model of the P.S. WESTWARD HO. Mounted on wooden backing with two metal hooks for attachment to wall.
Paddle steamer, P.S. WESTWARD HO (weight 438 tons) was built by S. Mc Knight & Co., Ayr, in 1894 and owned by P & A Campbell Co. Ltd. P.S. WESTWARD HO was renamed HMS WESTERN QUEEN and served as a minesweeper on the River Tyne at Grimsby during World War I. Re-fitted in 1920 the paddle steamer worked on services in South Devon in the 1930s. The paddle steamer returned to the Tyne in World War II, and assisted in the Dunkirk evacuation before becoming an accommodation ship on the River Dart at the end of the war. The WESTWARD HO was not re-conditioned after the war and was scrapped at Newport, in 1946.
Pwnc
Diwydiant
Rhif yr Eitem
2004.35/2
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: S. McKnight & Co.
Association Type: ship builder
Date: 1894
Associated Person/Body: P. & A. Campbell Ltd.
Association Type: ship owner
Date: 1894
Derbyniad
Bequest, 10/3/2004
Mesuriadau
Meithder
(mm): 200
Lled
(mm): 1580
Uchder
(mm): 260
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