Qualla: PS Earl of Arran https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: PS Earl of Arran https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran PS Earl of Arran: Introduction https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran/ On a calm July morning in 1872, a paddle steamer named the Earl of Arran rounded the eastern edge of the Isles of Scilly with one hundred passengers, the mail bags from Penzance, and an unlicensed pilot at the captain's elbow. She hit Irishman's Ledge a few cables off the uninhabited island of Nornour. Within five minutes the engine room was full of seawater. Within ten the saloon was awash. The captain put the boats over, ferried every passenger and the mail safely onto Nornour, and watched his ship settle on the rocks where her boilers can still be found today.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/ps-earl-of-arran-wp/gbgs-ps-earl-of-arran-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full PS Earl of Arran: Clyde Beginnings https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran/ She was a child of Scotland. Built by Blackwood and Gordon on the River Clyde and launched on 25 April 1860, the Earl of Arran was the kind of trim wooden paddle steamer the Clyde turned out by the dozen in those years - long, narrow-funnelled, with great box paddles on each beam...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/ps-earl-of-arran-wp/gbgs-ps-earl-of-arran-clyde-beginnings.mp3 0:06 2 full PS Earl of Arran: A New Life in Cornwall https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran/ In early 1870 the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company bought her and brought her south to Penzance. There she took up a more varied existence: towing fishing fleets, running summer pleasure cruises along the Cornish coast, and salvaging derelicts. In one such job in 1871 she towed a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/ps-earl-of-arran-wp/gbgs-ps-earl-of-arran-a-new-life-in-cornwall.mp3 0:06 3 full PS Earl of Arran: Irishman's Ledge https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran/ On 16 July 1872 the Earl of Arran was steaming through the Eastern Isles when she struck Irishman's Ledge on the seaward side of Nornour, a tiny uninhabited island in a shallow tangle of rocks. The damage was catastrophic and almost instant. Water poured in, the engine room filli...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/ps-earl-of-arran-wp/gbgs-ps-earl-of-arran-irishmans-ledge.mp3 0:06 4 full PS Earl of Arran: The Inquiry https://qualla.com/ps-earl-of-arran/ The Board of Trade inquiry that followed laid blame on a familiar pattern of small economies. Captain Deason had relied on the navigational advice of one Stephen Woodcock, a local who knew the islands but had no pilot's licence to act in that role. The ship was said to have cost ...

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