Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy

Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - The White Funnel Fleet - P & A Campbell Limited

The turbine screw ship 'Empress Queen' - A Rachael Tuck postcard from the Penarth Dock Collection. She was a twin screw ship driven by 4 steam turbines manufactured by Harland and Wolfe of Belfast. The ship was built as the 'Queen Eagle' at the Ailsa Ship Building Co. at Troon and launched in 1940 being of 1,781 gross tons. [001]

T.S.S. 'Empress Queen' of P. & A. Campbell Limited - Another Raphael Tuck & Sons Limited postcard of the turbine steamship from the Tuck's archive. [474]

'Empress Queen' - A photograph from the Penarth Dock Collection of the vessel moored off Hill's Yard, Bristol in November 1952 probably during her winter off-season slumber. [001]