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This Great Western paddle steamer moored close to Waterford makes a fine Poole image to begin the week.
With thanks today to AndyBrii, sharon.corbet, O Mac, beachcomberaustralia and especially ofarrl, we have confirmation of subject, date, and a concrete location for this image. Specifically, it is understood that this is the paddle steamer PS Milford, which operated on the GWR's Milford Haven to Waterford route from 1874. It is pictured on the North Wharf of Waterford, close to Ferrybank - likely later in its career, prior to the ship being broken-up in 1901.
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: catalogue range ca.1901-1954, but no later than end of 1901
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0150a
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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With thanks today to AndyBrii, sharon.corbet, O Mac, beachcomberaustralia and especially ofarrl, we have confirmation of subject, date, and a concrete location for this image. Specifically, it is understood that this is the paddle steamer PS Milford, which operated on the GWR's Milford Haven to Waterford route from 1874. It is pictured on the North Wharf of Waterford, close to Ferrybank - likely later in its career, prior to the ship being broken-up in 1901.
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: catalogue range ca.1901-1954, but no later than end of 1901
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0150a
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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AndyBrii
The name corrected (Mi)lford written on its bow.
sharon.corbet
The ship's name ends in "-lford" which may make it the PS Milford which was scrapped in 1901.
O Mac
She was a Great Western Railway ship. One of three paddle steamers ordered from William Simons & Co. of Renfrew in 1873. She was badly damaged in a storm and broken up in 1901. PS Waterford and PS Limerick were sister ships. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_ships
sharon.corbet
There's a reverse view, but it's hard to see much as the ship is in the way.
Vab2009
Fabulous old photograph of the paddle steamer!
ofarrl
The steamer is moored at Waterford's North Wharf. The buildings visible in the background were originally part of White's shipyard This is her sister ship Waterford
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08 Are you sure? It's a plausible spot, being right beside the railway, though according to some page on the history of Waterford that I found, they actually docked on Adelphi Quay, but it doesn't look much like it. There's no sign of the cliffs in the photo, and no sign of the big house in streetview.
ofarrl
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02/] Yes, it's definitely the North wharf, just downstream of the bridge and a little upstream of where the old flourmills are. The GWR had a terminal at the North wharf where their vessels also docked. The big house and the other buildings that were part of Whites are long gone unfortunately and the cliffs you mention would be to the left of where the photo was taken, nearer the railway station. This is one of my dad's photos, you can see the big house on the right, it was demolished sometime in the 1960's I believe.
sam2cents
I had no idea they were making paddle steamers so late in the 19th century. Fascinating, and a beautiful ship too.
guliolopez
In the Wikipedia article that [https://www.flickr.com/photos/129555378@N07] links is this statement:
I gathered that "ran down" meant "rammed/destroyed", but wanted to know more, so extracted the newspaper article. Below. Seems interesting to me that the inquiry took place in Milford Haven rather than at Waterford (where presumably the vessel "ran down" was known to someone...) I guess it's down to where registered however. www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/25868624411/Gerard Knight
What a beauty
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Somewhere about here? Streetview - goo.gl/maps/ryPt9M8rthy . The white house in the trees is still there, called Sion Lodge according to the 25" map. The house behind the ship is Ferrybank House. OSI - maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,660844,612950,11,9
ofarrl
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/] It would have been to the left of the 3 story office building in the streetview. but the house in the photo above is not Ferrybank House, that would have been a little further down river about where the old flour mills are. View from the Ferrybank side, White's shipyard was here with the large house to the right of the offices. goo.gl/maps/SVZZe3hmoHA2.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Excellent. Thanks so much all. Our location map of the Waterford Quays is already closely dotted with location pins, but we've tried to squeeze-in one more close to the vantage point suggested. We've also hopefully summarised some of the other learnings in the description and tags. Fantastic insight as usual, and great to have similar shots from https://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08's family collection. Much appreciated!
O Mac
This is the white house on the 25" OSI.. the building to the right sticks out a wee bit beyond it as in the photograph above. I noticed in later photographs that the building with the chimney stack had it's pitched roofed replaced with a water tank.,,complete with wind pump catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000334539
ofarrl
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/] That's the correct location. The building with the chimney stack was originally the blacksmith's workshop at White's shipyard according to Bill Irish in his excellent book Shipbuilding in Waterford 1820-1882. This is a photo from around 1920 that gives a better idea of location.