Saturday afternoon brought the first of the summer season visits to Bideford of Messrs P and A Campbell’s pleasure steamers.

It was the Cardiff Queen, and the warm welcome accorded was reminiscent of the occasion last year when she came to reintroduce pleasure trips by the firm from Bideford after a lapse of some thirty years.
Bideford Town Band played on the Quayside and many of the crowd went aboard for a trip down the Torridge around Bideford Bay and back. Later she again left Bideford for Ilfracombe and her cross-Channel schedule. A series of similar trips is arranged for the summer season.
Gazette article dated 8 July 1955