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Neil (2006-05-30)
The boat is The Tay Queen, which sailed from Broughty Ferry on river trips in the early 1980’s
Ron Young (Whitwell, Derbyshire) (2006-08-26)
I’ve also sailed on the “Tay Queen” in 1980. I got the feeling of “I’ve been here before” and did some searching around. Found her makers plate on the bridge which confirmed that I had indeed been there before - when she was the “Bridlington Queen” from the 1950’s. Happy memories!
What’s happened to the old girl now?
Ron Young (Whitwell, Derbyshire) (2006-08-28)
Further to my note that I submitted on Saturday, I have found a refrence in a letter to “East Riding News” from Mr MP Woodcock of Leven (available for download on the internet) that “Tay Queen” (Bridlington Queen) left the Tay and sailed to Boscombe, then to Newcastle and finally don the R Trent to Cromwell Lock before being towed to Goole and scrapped in 1995
Pete Turner (Adelaide, South Australia) (2008-02-07)
Very sad to hear that the Queen has been scrapped. I lived in Bridlington from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s before moving to Norfolk, and for a time worked on the pleasure boats, first for a living, then at weekends when I got a 9-to-5 job. I was employed by the Yorkshire Belle, but as the three boats (the third was Flamborian) worked together, despite having different owners, I got to spend time on the Queen as deckhand, barman, and relieving the skipper, Andy Connelly, at the wheel from time to time. The worst part was cleaning up after the few customers with weak stomachs after a trip! O.K. when it was on the deck and could be sluiced down with a bucket or two of sea water into the scuppers and over the side, but not pleasant when it was in the ladies’ cabin below decks aft, and you had to get down on your knees with a dustpan and brush before finishing up with a mop! I loved the Queen almost as much as I loved the Yorkshire Belle, and I was disappointed when she left to go to the Tay, but there just weren’t the passenger numbers to make it worthwhile for three boats. Still, she’s part of some very good memories from that period of my life.
biker 24 (2013-12-10)
So sad to hear she has gone to the breakers, I had many a happy sail on her in the fifties and sixties at Bridlington when I was only a young kid of 11 years old, I remember her hitting an underwater object on her way back from bempton cliffs and taking on water from the stern, She was blowing her whistle continuously, No radio in those days, and I have never seen so many fishing cobles, the other pleasure steamers and the speedboats race out to her aid, Thankfully she made it back to the harbour, her passengers being transferred to other vessels in the bay. She was repaired and was back in service the following year.I have never seen any reports about this incident but I stood on the quay as a small lad and watched it unfold.