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4 unusual facts about PS Jeanie Deans


PS Jeanie Deans

She was a popular boat, providing summer cruises from Craigendoran until 1964.

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She took the name of an earlier fleet member, continuing the tradition of the North British Railway naming their vessels after characters from Sir Walter Scott's novels.

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She was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, as a paddler, rather than the more popular turbine steamer, allowing her a shallow draught to visit Craigendoran and Helensburgh.

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From 1916, she was chartered to the Glasgow and South Western Railway and operated between Princes Pier and Dunoon.



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