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Old Photograph Steamer Linnet Ardrishaig Scotland
Old photograph of the steamer Linnet at Ardrishaig, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is located at the southern entrance to the Crinan Canal. Queen Victoria travelled along the canal to Crinan during a holiday in the Scottish Highlands in 1847. She was greeted at Ardrishaig and her boat was towed by four horses, two of which were ridden by postilions in royal livery. At Crinan she boarded the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Her journey made the canal a tourist attraction and gave the canal an added purpose. Passenger steamer companies operating out of Glasgow advertised the canal as the " Royal route " and by the late 1850s more than 40,000 passengers passed through Ardrishaig each year and were met by steamers to Oban at Crinan. In the 1866 the steam powered passenger boat Linnet replaced horse drawn boats for tourists. Linnet remained in service until 1929.
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