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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.

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.

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.

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



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