LORD OF THE ISLES

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Two of the most famous Clyde paddle steamers were called Lord of the Isles.
Both were built at D&W Henderson's yard at Partick.
The first PS Lord of the Isles was built in 1877 for the Glasgow and Inveraray Steamboat Company.
With a displacement of nearly 430 tons and measuring just over 245ft, she could carry more than 1000 passengers on her regular route between Greenock and Invereray.
She later went south to the Thames where she was renamed Lady of the Isles, and scrapped in 1904.
Her replacement was built in 1891 and had a dispacement of 450 tons and a length of 255ft.
Based at Invereray, her route was Greenock via Dunoon, Rothesay and the Kyles of Bute.
In 1909 she was sold to the Lochgoil and Invereray Steamboat Company, which ran her up as far as Lochgoilhead but sold her three years later to Turbine Steamers.
Based at Broomielaw, she sailed up to Tighnabruaich.
During the First World War she returned to the Lochgoilhead route, and when peace returned, went back to her service round Bute.
She was scrapped at Port Glasgow in 1928.

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