Sealink and Beyond fast and efficient paddle steamers

fast and efficient paddle steamers of steel construction

it was not until 1869 that the first privately owned steam launch began to ply its trade across the narrow neck of water between both towns

Home to the World’s Largest Working Waterwheel

Published 31st March 2026

Sealink and Beyond fast and efficient paddle steamersSealink was synonymous with ferry travel around the British Isles. Sealink & Beyond reviews this famous business from 1969, through privatisation and hostile takeover, until 1995 when the name was quietly dropped. Providing a full operational history, the book places Sealink in the context of an era of rapid change: from the after effects of Beeching to the Irish troubles, the Falklands War and Thatcherite privatisation, the Sealink story was heavily