Glasgow has given the world many things, especially in terms of engineering and ship-building, and one of these was Europe's first successful steam-powered passenger service which ran between Helensburgh, Glasgow and Greenock in the early 1800s. The ship which ran this route was called Comet, a paddlesteamer launched from Port Glasgow in 1812.
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The world's last sea-going passenger paddle steamer, the PS Waverley, passing a monument to Henry Bell, the person who designed the very first one, the PS Comet, which was launched in 1812. The Waverley regularly passes this location at Dunglass Castle on her trips up and down the Clyde, just as the Comet would have done some 212 years earlier.
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The monument on the right is the Henry Bell obelisk, a memorial to an early steamship pioneer.
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In 1825, the Comet II sank after colliding with another ship, killing 62 of the 80 passengers. After this, Bell abandoned his interest in steam-powered nautical navigation and he died in Helensburgh just a few years later in 1830.
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In 1808, Bell moved to Helensburgh and it was here he built his first successful steam-powered vessel, a paddlesteamer called Comet, in 1812 and used it to create Europe's first successful steam-powered passenger service running between Helensburgh, Glasgow and Greenock. In 1820, the Comet was shipwrecked near Oban, but was soon replaced by the PS Comet II.
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