Express by Holiday Inn Ayr-Prestwick Airport
Waverley
In the summer season combine your stay here with a trip on the Waverley, the world’s last ocean going paddle steamer, and recently lovingly restored.
After a complete £4 million refit in 2000, and restored to her 1947 standards, she returns to Ayr every year for a normal summer season's cruising. Clyde cruising at its very best.
The steamer has noticeable red, white and black funnels with a traditional brown grained ( or "scumbled") superstructure and black paddle wheel boxes, decorated with gold lettering on each side. The ship's operators claim the Waverley is "probably the most photographed ship in the world".
The Waverley is powered by a triple-expansion, three-crank diagonal steam engine (made by Rankin & Blackmore, Engineers, Eagle Foundry, Greenock, Scotland), which is rated at 2,100 IHP and achieved a trial speed of 18.37 knots at 57.8 rpm. Passengers can watch these engines from passageways on each side of the engine room.
Regular daily sailings from Ayr during the summer take her to Ailsa Craig, Arran, Northern Ireland, Loch Fyne and Inveraray, the Kyles of Bute, Tarbert, Helensburgh, Holy Loch and much more.
For timetables and more information – look at www.waverleyexcursions.co.uk
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