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    Last ditch bid to save Southern Railway paddle steamer Ryde

    Jun 25, 2018 3 minutes
    EXCLUSIVE By Phil Marsh

    A FRESH bid has been launched to save 1937-built Southern Railway paddle steamer PS Ryde.

    The Southern Railway operated a fleet of ships from south coast ports to various destinations between Rotterdam, Belgium, France, the Isle of Wight and to the Channel Islands. This aspect of‘railway’history has been well documented in the past but perhaps the final chapter should have been written last November with the scrapping of PS Ryde.

    The ship was launched on April 23, 1937, built by Dumbarton’s William Deny &

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