PS Maid of the Loch

56°00′31″N 4°35′31″W / 56.008663°N 4.591872°W / 56.008663; -4.591872

PS Maid of the Loch at the pier at Balloch, Loch Lomond where she is undergoing restoration.
History
United Kingdom
NameMaid of the Loch
Owner
OperatorCaledonian Steam Packet Company
RouteLoch Lomond
BuilderA. & J. Inglis of Pointhouse, Glasgow[1]
Yard number1474P
Launched5 March 1953
In service25 May 1953
Out of service31 August 1981
HomeportBalloch
IdentificationIMO number5217567
Status
  • UK Designated Vessels List
  • Static exhibit; under restoration
NotesLast paddle steamer built in a Clyde shipyard[2]
General characteristics
TypePassenger paddle steamer
Tonnage555 GRT
Length208 feet (63 m)[3]
Beam51 feet (16 m)[3]
Draught4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Installed power900 ihp (670 kW)[2]
PropulsionSteam, compound diagonal engines by Rankin & Blackmore, Greenock[2]
Speed13.75 knots (25.47 km/h; 15.82 mph)
CapacityPassengers: 1,000

PS Maid of the Loch is the last paddle steamer built in the United Kingdom. She operated on Loch Lomond for 29 years. [4] As of 2022, she was being restored near Balloch pier.

She is presently on the slipway near Balloch Pier undergoing extensive repairs to her hull, complete paddle restoration and will be coated in her original livery of white, green waterline and buff coloured funnel before being launched again into Loch Lomond. While under restoration, the Maid of the Loch has been open to the public every Saturday and Sunday Easter to October, and closed throughout the winter.

  1. ^ "Maid of the Loch". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Database of ships built on the Clyde: PS Maid of the Loch". clydesite.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ a b "Maid of the Loch". Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. ^ Brown, Alan (2000). Loch Lomond Passenger Steamers 1818 - 1989 (1st ed.). Carlton, Nuneaton, UK: Allan T Condie Publications. pp. 95–110. ISBN 9781856380287.