...if only for a refit... Tattershall Castle departed her Embankment moorings this morning under tow by tugs GRAY VIXEN , GPS IONIA and GPS IBERIA and is currently moored on buoys at Woolwich prior to her sea tow to Hull for refit when better weather allows. please log in to view this image Tattershall Castle was built in 1934 by W.Gray at Hartlepool. She operated on the Humber estuary and had a passenger capacity of 1050. She sailed on this route up to eight times a day until her retirement in 1973. In 1976, she was sold to become a floating art centre and conference centre on the Thames. In 1981, she was sold to the Chef & Brewer Group, and repairs and a refit were carried out by Acorn Ship Repairs on the River Medway. She reopened as a pub and restaurant on London’s Victoria Embankment in 1982. A further refit was carried out by Crescent Marine Services on the Medway in 1991, and another costing £4.75m in 2003-04 at Great Yarmouth. please log in to view this image Her appearance progressively changed to incorporate an enclosed main deck aft, a new bridge structure with large windows replacing the wheelhouse. Larger windows were cut into the forward lounge on the port side, and the paddle wheels were removed (and the ship lost her distinctive fan-shaped paddle-box vents). She is thus much more substantially altered than her two sister ships. Her original engines are still in place and can be viewed behind glass by visitors. Tattershall Castle is said to re-open in early May https://thameshighway.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/tattershall-castle-tow-to-woolwich/
I wonder if they'll refit it so it doesn't look like someone dropped a prefab sideways on top of a tug boat.
saw this on the news earlier, when it gets here we should pirate it and not send it back. Wait for the refurb first obviously
Didn't realise we still had the facillities undertake such a project I thought all of our shipbuilding/ship repairing industry disappeared along with the trawling industry. It would be nice to think it could have a place moored in Hull but its obvously flourishing in the capital and I can't help but think that the Artic Corsaire looks so falorn where it is bearthed at the moment.
Didn't the police and the council, clueless in the ways of the modern world, scupper plans for a bar and nightclub on a boat by putting so many restrictions on it that it would have been impossible to operate? The vessel the had decades of success in Bristol.
