PS Gael (1867)

History
Name	1863–1924: PS Gael
Operator	1863–1884: Clyde and Campbeltown Steam Packet Joint Stock Company 1884–1891: Great Western Railway 1891–1924: David MacBrayne, Glasgow
Port of registry
Route	1867–1884: Campbelltown - Glasgow 1884–1888: Weymouth Cherbourg 1888–1889: Penzance - Isles of Scilly 1889–1891: General GWR duties 1891–1914: Glasgow - Oban, Tobermory and Gairloch 1914–1924: Clyde estuary
Builder	Robertson and Company, Greenock
Yard number	1
Launched	9 March 1864
Completed	11 February 1867
Out of service	1924
Fate	Scrapped 1924
General characteristics
Tonnage	403 gross register tons (GRT)
Length	211 ft (64 m)
Beam	23.2 ft (7.1 m)
Draught	11 ft (3.4 m)
Installed power	150 hp
Propulsion	Rankin and Blackmore 2 Steam Oscillating Haystack Boilers.

PS Gael was a passenger vessel operated by the Great Western Railway from 1884 to 1891^[1]

This paddle steamer was launched on 9 March 1864 and completed on 11 February 1867^[2] She was named by Miss Minnie Galbraith, daughter of Andrew Galbraith Esq, Johnstone Castle, ex-Provost of Glasgow and spent most of her years in Scotland. She was owned by the Clyde and Campbeltown Steam Packet Joint Stock Company.

She was bought in 1884 and operated by the GWR, mainly on its Weymouth routes but also for a time at Milford Haven and from 1887^[3] to 1889 at Penzance for the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company.^[4] In 1891 she returned to the Clyde for duties on routes from Glasgow to Oban, Tobermory and Gairloch.

She was scrapped in 1924.