British Paddle Steamers The Twilight Years

In the aftermath of the Second World War, paddle steamers in Britain initially did rather well, with four new ones built between 1946 and 1953 and about sixty still in service nationwide. By 1955 this tide of optimism had turned and from then on it was downhill all the way.In almost every subsequent year, one or two paddle steamers were withdrawn and sometimes it was as many as five or six. By the...