The churches re-echoed the national enthusiasm in graver key and slower measure, and the aerial and naval preparations on the East River were greatly incommoded by the multitude of
excursion steamers which thronged, helpfully cheering, about them.
The largest
excursion steamer on the Clyde, she was launched in 1933 and retired 44 years later.
The side-wheel
excursion steamer Tashmoo was launched at Wyandotte.
Two of the Norisle project's key drivers are marine engineer John Coulter, who restored the Muskoka
excursion steamer Segwun, and Wayne Fischer, president of the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum.
Families crowd onto the
excursion steamer, St Tudno, for a trip to North Wales decades before the phrase ``package holiday'' was conceived.
If you click on "June 15," you'll learn that was the date in 1904 when the
excursion steamer General Slocum burst into flames in New York, killing 1,000 passengers.
In a dockside ship disaster, the
excursion steamer Eastland capsized at her pier in Chicago, killing 852 persons.
They've enlisted the expertise of marine engineer John Coulter, who restored the
excursion steamer Segwun on Lake Muskoka, and Wayne Fischer, president of the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum.
Completely rebuilt in 1988, she is now Britain's most widely-travelled
excursion steamer and is equipped with a cafeteria, bars and lounges.
THIS week's selection of photographs comes from the book Turbine
Excursion Steamers by Alistair Deayton and Iain Quinn.
The popularity of
excursion steamers continued until the emergence of cheap foreign package holidays in the 1960s.
Clair River--were accessible only by pleasure boat or via one of the many
excursion steamers that stopped there on the way up the St.