steamboatbelturbet

Steamboat, Lough Erne

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 11 older comments, and then…
• KenjiB_48 said:

  I think I see a head of dark hair behind the chap in the white cap standing by the rail at the end of the gangplank...

• Historical Front said:

  Wow! Very nice shot :)

• La Belle Province said:

  Added my very own special custom tag, and thank you, Carol!

• oaktree_brian_1976 said:

  wow she must be near capacity

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Cavan Library has a little detail about the similar photo: "When the Great Northern Railway Service arrived in Belturbet in 1885, excursions were run from Dublin to Belturbet, passengers then boarded the S.S. Belturbet for a pleasure trip on Lough Erne. The boat, owned by J.G.V. Porter, was licenced to carry 174 passengers. Following Mr. Porter's death in 1903, the SS Belturbet was retired from service. In 1914, at the start of World War One, the steel hull was melted down for the war effort. " So this is between 1885 and 1903.