Hi, Today I was having a sort out and came upon my old badge collection .
I found my enamel badge of the Queen of the Isles. It is actually in the shape of the ship .
I travelled on it with my sister and parents back in around 1967 or 68 she was 2 or 3 years old by then. I was about 4 or 5 at the time (pre school ) so can't remember too ,much. The holiday was in Llandudno (North Wales) so we embarked somewhere around that area . I then wondered whether she was still running and found your web site .I'm so glad to see shes OK . If you want I can can forward the badge to you ,my mail address is cooperman63@sky.com Best Regards Dave

Oh my, what a wonderful site! I'm thrilled to see that an entire site is dedicated to one of the ferries serving the Isles of Scilly, written with so much affection and detail. Great! It remains to hope that a similar site will once be there to honour the wonderful, pretty and truly amazing Scillonian III (maybe a project for me in the future?). Thank you ever so much for creating this tribute to the Queen of the Isles, I will come back!

Thanks Hoppy for putting me onto the site - it´s truely great and brings back so many wonderful memories from our adventures up and down the reef in 1990 - 1991. This was cruising at it´s very best. The punters and crew had the best time imaginable and the good old QOTI´s kept us safe (apart from the odd grounding and the bomb trip) and dry (in the non-alcoholic sense) most of the time.
I had a lot more fun then than I do now driving super rich wankers around the Med on plastic yachts!
Anyone from 90 / 91 drop me an email anytime.
CHEERS Gwoka, Max

Hi there, my Father; Capt James Stott, in retirement worked for the Pacific Navigation Company and was the Captain of the Queen for it's voyage from Penzance to Tonga. I often wondered what happened to her as all I knew that she had left Tonga. thanks for the great web page on the history. I would like to say I have some pictures, but they might take some finding. All the best

Travelled on the Queen of the Isles in the mid to late 60s with my Dad and Brother from St Ives to Scilly and it was the first time I had been sea sick! The Queen came in on the spring tide when the harbour was deep enough for its draft and moored alongside Smeatons Pier. Have some pics somewhere which I will dig out for the site. Great site.

Andy,
I found another picture on the site : Coasters remembered.
Here is the picture.
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Best regards,
Jan

A great ship. Sailed on her a couple of times when she was new. Lovely trip from Penzance to St Ives and back.

A shame to see the state that she is in now.

I remember the Queen of the Isles well - I was a boy in Penzance when she was brought into service on the Scillies run. At busy times she ran in conjunction with the Scillonian but the crossing was a notoriously rough one and she had a bit of a reputation as a sick maker!

My first trip to Scilly when I was around ten was on the Queen of the Isles, and I was sick...very sick on the way over. (Trip back was fine)
Turns out I was not alone, and she got a bad reputation as a spew bucket!
I lived in Hayle then, and remember her on South Quay later.
Nice to see all this history though...well done!
GC.

Sad to see her on the beach in the Solomons, it brings back memories of the day she was launched. I was stood between the railway lines and the quay edge on Hotwells Road on the opposite side of the dock to the Albion Yard when she came down the slip.