Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren Yes Place The town or city Balloch HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess No Activities Saturday 1st September.<h3>ACTIVITIES</h3>ON BOARDGuided tours will be available all day aboard the ship.Find the Teddy Crew.Take up the Signal Challenge and other quizzes. See the engines.AT THE SLIPWAYThere will be interactive activities at the steam powered slipway.See the steam slipway boiler making steam. Blow the Whistle.Stoke the Boiler.Haul up the Cargo. <a href="http://www.maidoftheloch.org/">http://www.maidoftheloch.org/</a> OpeningTime1 10.00-16.00 OpeningDate1 14/9/2019 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9708 Refreshments No Street The street address Drumkinnon Bay AddressLine2 Balloch Pier Postcode G83 8QX Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Maid of the Loch' Paddle Steamer Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived westdunbartonshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3566 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.00803,-4.590644; Description An account of the resource How to get there : Pier Road or Ben Lomond Way near Lomond Shores - Balloch Station. Loch Lomond's Paddle Steamer on Loch Lomond, at Balloch Pier.Open to the public as a family-friendly historic visitor attraction and as a unique venue for events and functions. PS Maid of the Loch is the last of a long line of Loch Lomond steamers that began about 1816. She was built by A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow launched on Thursday 5 March 1953. She is a "knock down" ship: that is, after assembly at the shipyard she was dismantled, and shipped to the loch by rail to Balloch where her sections were reassembled on a purpose built slipway.Her two-cylinder compound diagonal steam engine is less advanced than had become usual on steamers such as the P.S.Waverley, but was considered suitable for the limited area of operations.<img style="width: 0px; height: 15px;" src="/media/4208/maid-of-the-loch_img_8472.jpg?width=0&height=15" alt="" rel="16607" data-id="16607" /><img style="width: 210px; height: 157px;" src="/media/4208/maid-of-the-loch_img_8472.jpg?width=210&height=157" alt="" width="233" height="174" rel="16607" data-id="16607" /> <img style="width: 210px; height: 158px;" src="/media/4207/maid-winch-house.jpg?width=210&height=158" alt="" rel="16606" data-id="16606" />The restored A listed Balloch Steam Slipway is capable of pulling the 555 gross ton Maid of the Loch out of the loch. Well worth a visit in its own right.<img style="width: 0px; height: 15px;" src="/media/4649/maidloch_img_8465.jpg?width=0&height=15" alt="" rel="17262" data-id="17262" /><img src="/media/4649/maidloch_img_8465.jpg?width=450&height=600" alt="" width="129" height="173" rel="17262" data-id="17262" /> <img style="width: 0px; height: 15px;" src="/media/4650/maidloch_dscf2400.jpg?width=0&height=15" alt="" rel="17263" data-id="17263" /><img style="width: 230px; height: 173px;" src="/media/4650/maidloch_dscf2400.jpg?width=230&height=173" alt="" rel="17263" data-id="17263" />Then board the paddle steamer itself. You can wander the decks and admire the great paddles. There is continuous work on the boat, but depending on what is in hand on the day, you should be able to see the great engines. Then back up for a cup of tea.<a href="http://www.maidoftheloch.org/">http://www.maidoftheloch.org/</a><img src="/media/4688/maid-logo.jpg?width=117&height=205" alt="" width="76" height="122" rel="17324" data-id="17324" /> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Ship 1953; slipway and winch house 1902