THE OLDEST BRITISH STEAAIER AFLOAT. Which is the oldest British steamer afloat? Tho Cores of Padstow seems to “ take some beating,” seeing that she was built in 1811. ' For over 100 years she was a sailing vessel—a ketch—but a year or two ago she was-fitted with a motor engine, and so now appears in the Mercantile Navy List as a steamer! Probably few of the original timbers of the old craft remain, but she is often to be seen ploughing along the Bristol Channel carrying cargo. She is owned by Mr W. W. Petlierick, the Sydney hon. agent of the Shipwrecked Alariners’ Society of Bude*.
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Evening Star, Issue 15916, 23 September 1915, Page 6
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105Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 15916, 23 September 1915, Page 6
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