What was the name of the pleasure steamer sunk in a collision with the dredger Bowbelle on the Thames in 1989?
"inquests. On 20 August 1989 the Marchioness Boat was struck by the Bowbelle on the River Thames in London. This fatal collision resulted in the drowning of 51 people. Dr Paul Knapman was the coroner, Dr Dolman was deputising as Dr. Knapman was out of London at that time. Having returned to London, although not specifically recalling it, Dr. Knapman said that had he been asked by the Metropolitan Police he would certainly have given consent for hands to be removed from the decomposed bodies. This was standard practice for all London coroners at the time for any bodies that"
"the dredger ""Bowbelle"", which resulted in the loss of 51 lives in 1989. In 2002 a lifeboat station was established at Tower Pier. A E class lifeboat was placed on service at 12:00 on 2 January when the new search and rescue arrangements for the tidal reaches of the River Thames came into operation. The station is manned continuously to provide an immediate response and is coordinated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency from a Port of London Authority operations room at the Thames Barrier. Two of the three-person crew at each station are full-time and the third crew member"
"1888. She was renamed P.S. Laurel around 1890. PS Thomas Dugdale (1873) PS Thomas Dugdale was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1873 to 1883. She was built by A. Leslie and Company on the River Tyne for the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for their services from Fleetwood. She was named after one of the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1882 she received new engines by Rankin and Blackmore. She collided with PS Azalea of Glasgow,"
"On 12 July 1866 a paddle steamer the , on its way to Brisbane from Newcastle carrying 60 passengers, was caught in a storm as it made its way out of the harbour. 60 lives were lost with only one survivor, Frederick Hedges, who was plucked from the water by the sole survivor of the Dunbar that had sunk in Sydney Harbour. The most tragic maritime accident of the 20th century in Newcastle occurred on 9 August 1934 when the Stockton-bound ferry ""Bluebell"" collided with the coastal freighter, ""Waraneen"", and sank in the middle of the Hunter River. The Bluebell"
"PS Thomas Dugdale (1873) PS Thomas Dugdale was a paddle steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1873 to 1883. She was built by A. Leslie and Company on the River Tyne for the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for their services from Fleetwood. She was named after one of the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1882 she received new engines by Rankin and Blackmore. She collided with PS Azalea of Glasgow, in Lough Foyle, on or about 4 September"
"SS Princess Alice (1865) SS ""Princess Alice, formerly PS ""Bute, was a passenger paddle steamer. She was sunk in 1878 in a collision off Tripcock Point on the River Thames with the collier ""Bywell Castle"" that resulted in the loss of over 650 lives, the greatest loss of life of any British inland waterway shipping disaster. Caird & Company of Greenock, Scotland, launched the passenger paddle steamer ""Bute"" on 29 March 1865. The ship was long and at the beam; it had an draft. ""Bute"" had been built for the Wemyss Bay Railway Company, for whom she carried passengers between"
"On 4 March 1918, she was sunk in a collision and 26 people went missing, but was successfully raised and continued in service. She was sold in 1927 to Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace for the Tilbury to Dunkirk service, and was scrapped in 1932. TSS Rathmore (1908) TSS ""Rathmore"" was a twin screw steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1908 to 1923, and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923 to 1927. She was built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness for the London and North Western Railway in 1908. She was trialled at"
"goods and railway rolling stock. The passengers were taken by the destroyer to Holyhead. The destroyer put into Liverpool for repairs to her bow. TSS Slieve Bloom (1908) TSS ""Slieve Bloom"" was a twin screw steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1908 to 1918. She was built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness for the London and North Western Railway in 1908. She was named after the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Ireland. She was very similar in specification to her sister ship, ""Slieve Gallion"". She sank near South Stack lighthouse in a"
"""Waverley"" that was built in 1899, served in the Second World War as a minesweeper and was sunk in 1940 while helping to evacuate troops from Dunkirk. Shipbuilders A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow launched the new 693 tonne steamer in October 1946. She entered service with the London and North Eastern Railway in June 1947, working the LNER's Firth of Clyde steamer route from Craigendoran Pier, near Helensburgh, up Loch Long to Arrochar. In her first year in service she wore that company's red, white and black funnel colours. The 1948 nationalisation of Britain's railways brought their Scottish steamers"
"at the pier built to service the gardens. One of the steamboats from Rosherville Gardens was involved in a horrific accident in 1878. The passenger steamer, after leaving Rosherville pier, was in a collision with the collier ""Bywell Castle"" at Tripcock Point, a mile downstream from Woolwich. 640 people died from the collision, 240 being children. An inquest was held at Woolwich, but no conclusive reason was ever established as to the cause of the disaster at the Devils Elbow on the Thames. At one time the gardens were managed by Barnet Nathan, brother of the musician and 'friend of"
"the Tidal Cruises-owned Marchioness sank when it collided with a dredger, killing 51 people. In 1999, 120 passengers and crew on the Symphony were evacuated at Lambeth Pier after the vessel struck Lambeth Bridge. There were no injuries. Lambeth Pier Lambeth Pier is a pier on the Albert Embankment, near Lambeth Bridge, on the south side of the Thames in London, England. It has been part of a ferry service up to the mid-18th century, and now serves pleasure rides and cruises along the river. There has been a landing facility for boats here since Roman Britain. It became the"
"into the Royal Navy on 14 January 1989. ""Trenchant"" is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2019. On 22 November 1990, the nets of the fishing vessel ""Antares"" were snagged by ""Trenchant"" in the Bute Sound in Scotland. At the time the submarine was conducting a 'Perisher' Submarine Command Course exercise in company with the frigate HMS ""Charybdis"". ""Antares"" was pulled under with the loss of all four members of the crew. In July 1997, the submarine ran aground off the western coast of Australia. While approaching Fremantle, Western Australia, the submarine remained at a depth of and grounded when she"
"England, with the loss of five of her crew. SS Hebble (1891) SS ""Hebble"" was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company Limited in 1891. ""Hebble"" was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard for the Goole Steam Shipping Company Limited and launched on 7 July 1891. ""Hebble"" was obtained by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1905. On 12 August 1908, ""Hebble"" was damaged in a collision with the Yarmouth steamer ""Armourer"" in the River Humber. ""Hebble"" was requisitioned by the Admiralty in the World War I and struck a mine and sank in"
"smaller and more modern launches. Three of the original four boats survive: the MV ""Tern"" of 1891, the MV ""Teal"" of 1936, and the MV ""Swan"" of 1938. The fourth, MV ""Swift"" of 1900, was broken up at Lakeside in 1998. Her rudder and only one propeller are displayed at Bowness. Although often described as ""steamers"", all are now diesel motor vessels. ""Tern"" and ""Swift"" were built with steam engines, but converted to diesel power in the 1950s. The Windermere Ferry, a vehicle-carrying cable ferry, runs across the lake from Ferry Nab on the eastern side of the lake to"
"TSS Slieve Bloom (1908) TSS ""Slieve Bloom"" was a twin screw steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1908 to 1918. She was built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness for the London and North Western Railway in 1908. She was named after the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Ireland. She was very similar in specification to her sister ship, ""Slieve Gallion"". She sank near South Stack lighthouse in a collision with the , a US destroyer on 31 March 1918, with the loss of all of her cargo, 370 cattle, 12 horses, general"
"SS Admella SS ""Admella"" was an Australian passenger steamship that was shipwrecked on a submerged reef off the coast of Carpenter Rocks, south west of Mount Gambier South Australia, in the early hours of Saturday 6 August 1859. Survivors clung to the wreck for over a week and many people took days to die as they glimpsed the land from the sea and watched as one rescue attempt after another failed. With the loss of 89 lives, mostly due to cold and exposure, it is one of the worst maritime disasters in Australian history. ""Admella"" disaster remains the greatest loss"
"the River Medway and in the Thames Estuary. Trialled on the River Clyde, she was delivered to be part of the ""Queen Line"" fleet of the New Medway Steam Packet Company based at Rochester, Kent. She steamed the Thames on the routes from Strood and Chatham, to Sheerness, Herne Bay and Margate in Kent; and Clacton and Southend in Essex. On 3 August 1929, ""Medway Queen"" collided with Southend Pier, Essex, and suffered extensive damage to her bows. After attending the coronation Fleet Review for George VI at Spithead in 1937, ""Medway Queen"" was converted to oil-fired steaming, by Wallsend"
"across the English Channel for a visit to commemorate the sinking of her predecessor, built in 1899, at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940. After the Clyde, the Thames estuary was the main growth area for steamboats, starting with the ""Margery"" and the ""Thames"" in 1815, which were both brought down from the Clyde. Until the arrival of railways from 1838 onwards, steamers steadily took over the role of the many sail and rowed ferries, with at least 80 ferries by 1830 with routes from London to Gravesend and Margate, and upstream to Richmond. By 1835, the Diamond Steam Packet"
"by A. Wheeler of Sydney at the time of her sinking, and was insured in the South British Company of New Zealand for £6000. She was valued at £10,000. Alhambra (1855) The Alhambra was an iron steamer screw built in 1853 by Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London. It was wrecked in a collision off Newcastle, near Nobbys Head, New South Wales, on 30 June 1888. The ""Alhambra"" was named ""Cintra"" during its design. It was later renamed ""Braganza"", which was finally changed to its current name shortly before the ship was launched on 31 May 1855. The name is"
"Star"". She was placed under the management of Burness Shipping Co Ltd. In 1955, ""Sand Star"" was converted to a dredger. Management passed to Wm Cory & Sons Ltd in 1956. On 4 March 1966, ""Sand Star"" collided with the coaster in Southampton Water and sank. All eight crew were rescued by ""Caroline M"". She was raised in May and scrapped in September at Thos W Ward Grays, Essex. MV Sand Star Sand Star was a dredger that was built in 1943 as the coaster Empire Dyke Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend, Northumberland, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport"
"services marking Armistice Day and Armed Forces Day. Moored at St Katharine Docks, ""Havengore"" currently undertakes a mixed programme of public service and charitable events and is also available for corporate hospitality purposes. On 30 January 1965 ""Havengore"" carried Sir Winston Churchill on his last journey by water along the River Thames from Tower Pier to Festival Pier during his State Funeral. On her journey along the Thames, ""Havengore"" was saluted by a flypast of 16 English Electric Lightning fighter jets, and dock cranes were bowed as she passed. This event was broadcast live to an estimated worldwide audience of"
"'London Steamship Company', operated an excursion steamer service between Ipswich and London from before 1871 until 1887; in 1878 one of their ships, the ""SS Princess Alice"" sank with the loss of some 700 lives while on an excursion in the Thames estuary. Following the collapse of the 'London Steamship Company' in 1887 the 'London, Woolwich & Clacton-on-Sea Steamboat Company' was formed offering services between London and Clacton; an additional service to Ipswich started in about 1893. The ""Woolwich Belle"" acted as a feeder service between Ipswich and Clacton from where the London service operated. After two changes of ownership"
"MV Sand Star Sand Star was a dredger that was built in 1943 as the coaster Empire Dyke Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend, Northumberland, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was transferred to the Netherlands in 1943 and renamed Prinses Margriet. In 1954, she was sold to the United Kingdom and renamed ""Sand Star"". She served until 1966 when she sank following a collision. The ship was built in 1942 by Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend, Northumberland. She was yard number 56. The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of and a"
"of life in the history of European settlement in South Australia. Of the 113 on board 24 survived, including only one woman, Bridget Ledwith. Of the 89 dead, 14 were children. The 150th anniversary of the disaster was marked in August 2009 by events across the south east of South Australia and at Portland, Victoria. SS ""Admella"" (so named for her circuit Adelaide, Melbourne, Launceston) was built by Lawrence Hill and Co. at Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1857. She was an iron single screw steamer nearly 60 metres long and 8 metres at her widest and displaced about 395 tons."
"returns to Greenwich. The company owns a -long, double-decker leisure boat, MV ""Princess Pocahontas"" with seating for 134 passengers. It is named after the Native American Princess Pocahontas who is buried at Gravesend, and it is operated by Freemen of the River Thames. They also own the passenger boat ""Duchess M"" which operates the ferry service between Gravesend and Tilbury.no longer runs the ferry service between gravesend and tilbury Lower Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Company Lower Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Company is a river boat company which provides cruises on the River Thames in Gravesend and London, UK."
"The tankers were serviced by four tugs, ""Bantry Bay"", ""Dingle Bay"", ""Brandon Bay"", ""Tralee Bay"". The terminal closed on 8 January 1979 when the ""Betelgeuse"" exploded, killing fifty people. Tourism catered to English visitors in bed and breakfast inns and premises such as Ballyrooster House. The renewal of the troubles in Northern Ireland and competition from Spain crimped the industry. Rossmore slate quarry was owned by a Liverpool Company in 1865 with exports to England, Scotland and France. The quarry ceased operations in 1917. The remains of the powder store and tool shed are still visible. Friendly Cove Slate Quarry"
"an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire. Several weeks later, a second storm washed the ship off the rock and drove it ashore on the island. The wreck still lies on the shoreline and is a tourist attraction. It is visible in the opening credits of the television series ""Father Ted"". In early January 2014, Storm Christine shifted the wreck's position on the coast for the first time since 1991. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/disappointment-for-father-ted-fans-as-the-storm-ravages-the-familiar-shipwreck-29892489.html MV Plassy MV ""Plassy, or Plassey, was a steam trawler launched in late 1940 and named HMT ""Juliet in 1941. It"
"PS Waverley (1899) PS ""Waverley"" was a Clyde-built paddle steamer that carried passengers on the Clyde between 1899 and 1939. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as a minesweeper during World War I and again in World War II, and was sunk while participating in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. The current PS ""Waverley"", launched in 1946, was built as a replacement for this vessel. ""Waverley"" was built by A. & J. Inglis for the North British Steam Packet Co. at their Pointhouse shipyard on the Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The ship was designed to be the flagship"
"merchant vessel, the Clyde steamer , was built in 1901. Her successor, the of 1933, was a floating restaurant on the River Thames in London until 2009. The , built in 1947, is the last survivor of these fleets, and the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. This ship sails a full season of cruises every year from places around Britain, and has sailed across the English Channel for a visit to commemorate the 1940 sinking of her predecessor (built in 1899) at the Battle of Dunkirk. The 1900 steamer still sails on Loch Katrine, while on Loch Lomond"
"""adopt-a-wreck"" scheme, is often overlooked by divers, as the wrecks of the Liberty ship and Royal Navy frigate are close by and in shallower water. The wreck is considerably broken up, and is hard to find on an echo sounder. Totnes SAC SS Rosehill SS ""Rosehill – also known as SS ""Penhill – was a 2,788-tonne steel-hulled collier built in 1911 by S.P. Austin and Son of Sunderland under the name ""Minster"". She was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine ""U-40"" in the English Channel off Fowey, Cornwall, England, on 23 September 1917 while en route from Cardiff, Wales,"
"Director Control Tower on the foremast spotting top and Radar Type 272 centimetric target indication on the foremast, below the spotting top. By 1944, nine 20 mm Oerlikon guns had been added, two of which had replaced the useless Vickers machine guns. ""Adventure"" was converted to a repair ship for landing craft for the Normandy landings. ""Adventure"" was badly damaged near the Tongue Light Vessel, in the Thames Estuary at 05.25 on 13 November 1939, by an underwater explosion. 23 of her crew were killed or fatally injured. The bridge was wrecked and crew and fittings were thrown against bulkheads"
"the BBC in 2013 in a John Sergeant documentary about the Westland Sea King Helicopter. The wreck has subsequently become an attraction for sport divers. MV Murree The MV ""Murree"" was a 1981 ship of the SD18 type, which sank in the English Channel in 1989. The SD14 (Shelter Deck 14) type was the successor class of Liberty Ships developed by the Austin & Pickersgill's shipyard of the River Wear in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear. 211 SD14 vessels were built. The MV ""Murree"" was one of three SD18 vessels - a larger and more advanced type based on the SD14"
"all 3 Services. Five crew were killed, all Merchant Navy. The survivors were rescued by and a LCT. They were landed at Algiers. Those killed serving on ""Empire Eve"" are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London. SS Empire Eve Empire Eve was a CAM ship that was built in 1941 by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She served until 1943, when she was torpedoed and sunk by off Algeria. The ship was built in 1941 by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham. The ship was"