Ship - Paddle Steamer La Marguerite - Liverpool-Llandudno route - art postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Paddle Steamer 'La Marguerite' built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. in Scotland. Sold to Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Company Ltd in 1904 and used on the Liverpool to Llandudno route and occasional trips to the Isle of Man
• Publisher:  orgibal watercolour by John Rees-Jowett
• Postally used:  no
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• Notes / condition:  has small barcode label on back, bumped corner - scan has not come out very well as lines are quite fine but the card is quite colourful and clear - also this is a slightly bumped corner and minor wear

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company (LNWSC) was a pleasure cruise company, based in Liverpool

1890, the Glasgow-based Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company had formed the New North Wales Steamship Company (NNWSS).^[1] The pleasure cruiser market was quickly changing, and bigger boats meant cheaper prices, and hence higher profits. The NNWSS operated its first season with the new Fairfield-built St Tudno, far bigger than any rival vessel on that run.^[1][2]

Resultantly, in 1891 the NNWSS took over the rival Liverpool, Llandudno and Welsh Coast Steam Boat Company (LL&WC) to form the LNWSC. The original St Tudno was sold to Germany, but along with the older and smaller LL&WC steamers was replaced by the brand new St Tudno, which became the first ship to run under LNWSC colours.^[1][2]

The flag of the LNWSC was white swallowtail, bearing a blue cross throughout, with three gold-coloured ostrich feathers in the form of the Fleur-de-Lys in the centre.^[3]

In 1899, the company took over the smaller Snowdon Passenger Steamboat Company (SPSC), which had started in 1892.^[1]

The company's main route was as described in their name: Liverpool, Holyhead, Llandudno and the Menai Straits piers of Beaumaris and Bangor.^[1][2][4] The companies largest ships operated this route.^[1][2] They also operated services north to Fleetwood, west to the Isle of Man, and around the Isle of Anglesey.^[1]

The fleet was supplied direct from the Govan yards of Fairfield,^[5] where vessels had either been freshly built or heavily refurbished, and where winter maintenance was also undertaken.^[1]

The paddle steamer St Elvies was introduced in 1896, mainly deployed on excursions on the Isle of Man route. After the purchase of the SPSC in 1899, she was joined by their paddle steamer Snowdon. In the 1904 season, the expensive La Marguerite was transferred from the Thames Estuary services, operating from Liverpool on the main route until the end of the 1925 season.^[1][2]

After this point, steam turbine vessels began to be deployed. The first steam turbine vessel to be built for the LNWSC was 1914s St Seiriol, but she was lost during World War I, when all commercial services had been suspended. Hence the St Tudno in 1925 became the first turbine vessel, with a second similar but smaller version also called St Seiriol joining in 1931. In the mid-1930s the small diesel-powered St Silio joined the fleet, renamed St Trillo after World War II, again when commercial services were suspended.^[1][2]

type=printed postcards

theme=transportation

sub-theme=sea

transportation type=steam ships

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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