Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

Notes:

          On the Belfast-Stranraer route the Maid of Galloway was replaced in the mid 1840s by the Albion of the Glasgow & Stranraer SP Co. In the early 50s the PS Briton was sometimes used. A weekly service was provided but in some winters it was reduced to once a fortnight. In the early 60s the number of sailings was increased to three a week which were taken by the Scotia and the second Albion. The first Albion was retired from this service in 1860. The service was reduced to a weekly one on the opening of the Larne-Stranraer route in 1862.

[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]

          The Albion was briefly o charter to the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company for a short-lived Poole-Cherbourg service. The Pool, Bickford and Matthews (formally the Hale & Bristol Steam Navigation Company), having lost their paddler Queen on 29th March 1866, were looking around for a suitable replacement. John Pool purchased the Albion from the Liverpool shipbroker, Peter Lindsay Henderson in February 1867.

          The weekly service from Hale to Bristol, calling off Ilfracombe was generally kept up, also a weekly run to Swansea. There was at least one diversion in August 1868, when the Albion took 60 passengers from Hale, Penzance and Plymouth to Guernsey and Jersey. This would have taken "Cheap Trippers".

          She was sold in Glasgow in 1868 and converted to sail in 1882.

[West Country Passenger Steamers, Farr]