Paddle Steamer Maid of the Loch Fixtures and Fittings Appeal

An appeal by the Loch Lomond Steamship Company for the return of original fixtures that were plundered from the Paddle Steamer Maid of the Loch after her withdrawal from service in 1981.

http://www.maidoftheloch.org/

The Maid of the Loch entered service in 1953, the same year as the Queen's coronation. But the Maid fell on hard times as passenger numbers dwindled and the ship was eventually mothballed in 1981. While the ship did remain watertight while moored at Balloch on Loch Lomond, copper piping and artefacts disappeared. When she was built on the Clyde she was immediately dismantled to be shipped in railway wagon-sized chunks to Loch Lomond. It was a technique called "up and down", usually used to send ships across the globe for local assembly.

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