PS Ivanhoe (1880)
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|UK|government}} | Ship name =PS Ivanhoe | Ship owner =*1880-1897 Firth of Clyde Steam Packet Company
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PS Ivanhoe was a steamer launched in 1880 at the D. and W. Henderson and Company shipyard, Meadowside, Glasgow, for the Firth of Forth Steam Packet Company for service on the River Clyde.{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |author-link= |date=1990 |title=Clyde River and Other Steamers |url= |location= |publisher=Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd. Glasgow |page=10 |isbn=0851745652}}
History
She was christened by Mrs. George Bell and launched on 25 February 1880. She comprised two salons, over which extended the promenade deck, in length about {{convert|180|ft|m}}. Underneath the principal saloon was a dining saloon with accommodation for about 100 passengers. She was inaugurated as passenger vessel supporting the temperance movement offering alcohol-free services on the Greenock and Helensburgh to Arran service.
The company succumbed to competition from steamers operated by the Glasgow and South Western Railway and in 1897 the vessel was sold to the Caledonian Steam Packet Company{{cite news |author= |title= The Sale of Liquor on Clyde Steamers |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000453/18970501/045/0003 |newspaper=Dundee Evening Telegraph | location=Scotland |date=1 May 1897 |access-date=2 December 2024 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} who installed bars and sold alcohol for the first time.
In 1894 she was chartered to provide passenger services between Liverpool and Manchester on the Manchester Ship Canal but this did not prove commercially viable, so she returned to the River Clyde.
She was sold again in 1911 to Newlands and Campbell of Glasgow.{{cite news |author= |title= Clyde Passenger Steamer Sold |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19110220/356/0009 |newspaper=The Scotsman | location=Scotland |date=20 February 1911 |access-date=2 December 2024 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
During the First World War she was retained on the Clyde, whilst other ships were requisitioned. She was put up for sale in August 1920{{cite news |author= |title= Two veteran Clyde pleasure steamers |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005086/19200807/017/0003 |newspaper=Campbeltown Courier | location=Scotland |date=7 August 1920 |access-date=2 December 2024 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} but was broken up a few months later.