Chris Phillips, Vice Chairman PSPS Wessex and Dart Branch, shares detail of this upcoming event. Ed
The Wessex and Dart Branch of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society is holding its annual Isle of Wight Meeting on Saturday 1st April at East Cowes Town Hall from 2pm.
The guest speaker will be the Managing Director of Waverley Excursions, Paul Semple, who is travelling from Glasgow to be with us. Paul’s talk is entitled Operating Paddle Steamer Waverley beyond her 75th Anniversary.
Returned after four-year gap
Waverley made a very successful return visit to the Solent last September, after a gap of four years. Many of Waverley‘s sailings from Yarmouth Pier were sold out. The steamer is scheduled to return to the Solent again from 1st-21st September this year.
Free entry
All are welcome to the event.
There is no entry charge and there’ll be refreshments – teas, coffees and cakes – available during the afternoon.
Find out more
Full details of the proposed sailings for the coming season – beginning on the steamer’s home waters of the Clyde on 19th May – can be found on the Website.
Image: © With kind permission of Roy Tait
