{"id":4352,"date":"2017-05-27T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dalmadan.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2017-05-30T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:38:44","slug":"saint-columba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalmadan.com\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"Saint Columba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the end of the 1935 season, Messrs David Macbrayne & Co. Ltd, took possession of the two turbine steamers, Queen Alexandra<\/em> and King George V<\/em> that had belonged to Turbine Steamers Ltd. In May 1936, Queen Alexandra<\/em> reappeared from the yard of Messrs J. Lamont & Co. Ltd. of Port Glasgow, sporting a mainmast, and a much elongated upper deck to accommodate a third red, black-topped funnel, drawing immediate positive comment as it reminded Clydesiders of the Cunard-White-Star liner Queen Mary<\/em> that had been such an important image of the slow recovery of the shipbuilding industry on the river. Though the third funnel was a dummy, the new name selected for the vessel, Saint Columba<\/em>, was also inspired as it cemented the link to the famous Columba<\/em>, scrapped at the end of the 1935 season, that she was to replace.<\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1936 (Robertson)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1936 (Valentine)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1936<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1936 (Adamson)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1936 (Valentine)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sailing from the Broomielaw at 7:10 a.m., like her predecessor, she conducted the summer service through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig as part of the Royal Route swift steamer connection to the Western Isles and Highlands.<\/p>\n

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Saint Columba September 10, 1937<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1937, she was converted to oil burning and that year, a series of postcards of her route was produced by James Valentine. The Ardrishaig postcards were reminiscent of a famous view dating from 1878 of Columba<\/em> in her first season.<\/p>\n

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Saint Columba at Tarbert\u00a0in 1937 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba at Ardrishaig\u00a0in 1937 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Columba at Ardrishaig\u00a0in 1878\u00a0(Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba at Ardrishaig\u00a0in 1937 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba from above Colintraive in 1937 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba at Dunoon in 1937 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Other postcard makers also found Saint Columba<\/em> photogenic.<\/p>\n

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Saint Columba off Tighnabruaich (Spencer)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba in the Kyles of Bute\u00a0(Spencer)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba at Princes Pier on July 1, 1939<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba following King Edward upriver from Port Glasgow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

During World War II, Saint Columba<\/em> was laid up in East India Harbour as an accommodation ship. She returned to service in 1947 with Gourock rather than the Broomielaw as her base, and was a splash of colour in the Clyde steamer fleet in the early 1950s when black-topped buff funnels were the norm.<\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1948 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1948 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba at Ardrishaig 1950 (Valentine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba Innellan around 1950 (Miller & Lang)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba in Rothesay Bay in September 1952<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Saint Columba 1957 at Dunoon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She was scrapped at Port Glasgow at the end of the 1958 season.<\/p>\n

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Saint Columba in her last season in the Kyles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CLD Duckworth and GE Langmuir, “Clyde River and Other Steamers” Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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