Post by Administrator on Jul 8, 2017 21:16:00 GMT
P.S. BARRY / P.S. WAVERLEY
MNA WALES NEWS FEATURE.
On the 5th September 2016 members of the Barry Merchant Navy Association (Wales) Barry branch, accompanied by Mr T. Sylvester of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, spent a very pleasant afternoon onboard PS Waverley on a short voyage in the Bristol Channel departing from Penarth. Whilst onboard they met the Captain Ross Cochrane and presented him with a Merchant Navy Barry branch plaque together with details of Barry’s own paddle steamer the PS. Barry - the Barry also during her service covered for the original Waverley and bore her name. They also met the actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales who are members of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society and were onboard filming for their TV programme Great Canal Journeys.
The current PS Waverley was built in 1946 and is owned by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society. In 1907 another paddle steamer PS Barry was built for the Barry Railway Company as a pleasure steamer carrying passengers to various ports in the Bristol Channel. She later transferred to the Campbell Fleet. She served with distinction in the Gallipoli campaign during World War One. After the war she was reconditioned and renamed Waverley in 1925 and returned to cruising in the Bristol Channel in 1934. She saw service as a minesweeper during World War Two as HMS Snaefell and was bombed and sunk off the north east coast of England in 1941.
June 2017
