"SY Gondola The steam yacht Gondola is a rebuilt Victorian, screw-propelled, steam-powered passenger vessel on Coniston Water, England. Originally launched in 1859, she was built for the steamer service carrying passengers from the Furness Railway and from the Coniston Railway. She was in commercial service until 1936 when she was retired, being converted to a houseboat in 1946. In 1979, by now derelict, she was given a new hull, engine, boiler and most of the superstructure. She is back in service as a passenger boat, still powered by steam and now operated by the National Trust. ""Gondola"" is one of"
"Coniston Hall Coniston Hall is a former house on the west bank of Coniston Water in the English Lake District. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The house dates from the late 16th century, or possibly earlier. It is built in stone rubble with a slate roof. Part of it is now ruined, part is used as a farmhouse, and another part is used by a sailing club. The hall is owned by the National Trust, but is not open to the public. A privy about to the south"
"166) and Stainton. Waterwitch operates on Sundays and Bank Holidays from May to September inclusive. Trips last approximately 40 minutes, charges are £3 for Adults and £1 for Children. Landing stage is opposite the Crooklands Hotel postcode LA7 7NW. The Trust is affiliated to the Inland Waterways Association and works in conjunction with British Waterways, local authorities, county councils, and other canal users. Lancaster Canal Trust The Lancaster Canal Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity on the Lancaster Canal in Lancashire and Cumbria, England. It was formed in 1963 as the Association for the Restoration of the"
"Nancy Oldfield Trust The Nancy Oldfield Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust and a registered charity no. 1068549 in Norfolk, East Anglia, England, UK. The Trust is based at Neatishead on the Norfolk Broads and provides boating opportunities and water-based activities for disabled and disadvantaged people from anywhere in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1984 by Richard Kenyon in memory of his parents. The Trust operates three motor cruisers, one of them electric, seven sailing yachts, and several canoes. The motor boats have wheelchair lifts, and hoists are available for all other boats. There is also"
"Caroline of Monaco, now Princess Caroline of Hanover. Other boating charities offering boating opportunities for disabled people: Peter Le Marchant Trust The Peter Le Marchant Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust and a registered charity number 273207, based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK. The Trust operates its three trip boats Symphony, Melody, and Serenade (two broad beam boats and one narrowboat) on the Grand Union Canal and adjacent waterways. For more than thirty-five years, the Trust has provided day outings and canal holidays for disabled or seriously ill people of all ages and disability. The boats are fully"
"of the hall is listed at Grade II. Coniston Hall Coniston Hall is a former house on the west bank of Coniston Water in the English Lake District. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The house dates from the late 16th century, or possibly earlier. It is built in stone rubble with a slate roof. Part of it is now ruined, part is used as a farmhouse, and another part is used by a sailing club. The hall is owned by the National Trust, but is not open to"
"Lancaster Canal Trust The Lancaster Canal Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity on the Lancaster Canal in Lancashire and Cumbria, England. It was formed in 1963 as the Association for the Restoration of the Lancaster Canal, and its main aim is the restoration and reopening for navigation of the stretch between Tewitfield Locks, north of Carnforth, and Kendal. The Trust also aims to protect the essential character of the canal, but at the same time to develop the canal as a public amenity. It operates the tripboat ""Waterwitch"", a traditional 28 ft narrowboat cruising between Crooklands (Bridge"
"time of the Anglian Water Act 1977. Currently, only boats light enough to maneuver around many the obstacles may use the river below Great Henny. This restricts most of the river to canoes although, even for such small craft, the river is not sufficiently navigable to allow easy passage along its entire lower section. River Stour Trust volunteers offer boat trips from Easter to October so that members of the public can enjoy the beauty of Constable country. Every year the Trust organises the Sudbury to the Sea event. Canoes, kayaks and small boats take part in the two-day event,"
"using their own boats (subject to possession of an EA License) or with any of the hire operators working along the river including; Outdoor Hire Centre Network who offer self-guided trips and River Stour Boating CIC who offer guided trips. The major project of the Trust at the present time (2008) is the restoration of the lock at Stratford St Mary. River Stour Trust The River Stour Trust is a registered charity and waterway restoration group. It was founded in 1968 to protect and enhance the right of the public to navigate the River Stour, Suffolk, England. It is led"
"section of the original Thames towpath extends from the boathouse, north to Cookham Lock. Cliveden House may be accessed by watercraft from the mooring on Cliveden Reach half a mile downstream from Cliveden boathouse. A series of Eyots in the reach are owned by the National Trust, and allow for short periods of mooring for passing boats. Cliveden Reach is a popular spot for canoeing, kayaking, and angling. The National Trust offers self-hire boats and guided river cruises. Cliveden is the location or inspiration for scenes in the following film and TV productions. Cliveden Cliveden (pronounced ) is a National"
"Peter Le Marchant Trust The Peter Le Marchant Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust and a registered charity number 273207, based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK. The Trust operates its three trip boats Symphony, Melody, and Serenade (two broad beam boats and one narrowboat) on the Grand Union Canal and adjacent waterways. For more than thirty-five years, the Trust has provided day outings and canal holidays for disabled or seriously ill people of all ages and disability. The boats are fully equipped for disabled people, with hydraulic lifts and other facilities. The Trust's Patron is the former Princess"
"The National Trust. The cottage is located on the bank of the River Stour, just downstream from Flatford Mill in the heart of Dedham Vale, a typically English rural landscape. Flatford Mill, along with neighbouring Valley Farm and Bridge Cottage, are leased to the Field Studies Council, which uses them as locations for arts-based courses such as painting and as accommodation for sciences-based courses such as residential ecology trips for schools at A-level and younger. The cottage takes its name from its resident at the time John Constable did his paintings. At that time the house was known as Gibeons"
"on the cliffs over-looking Kynance Cove. Kynance Cove and the surrounding coast are owned and managed by the National Trust. It is part of the West Lizard Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is in the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Kynance Café (which first opened for business in 1929) relied until recently on spring water, and on a generator for power. When the café became the property of the National Trust in 1999, the Trust renovated it and provided mains water and electricity. Access is via the South-west coastal footpath from the nearby National Trust car"
"built in 2011/2012 with the original ""Highland Seagull"" being transported south to the Lowland Canals to be lengthened, adapted and used as a floating classroom. The ""Highland Seagull"" is now named ""The Wooden Spoon Seagull"" Other boating charities giving access to disabled people: Seagull Trust Seagull Trust Cruises (formerly Seagull Trust) is a waterway society and Scottish charity. The Trust was formed in 1978 and offers free canal cruising for disabled and disadvantaged persons and groups. It is the largest service provider of its kind within the UK, and run entirely by volunteers. The Seagull Trust was awarded The Queen's"
"the boats, and to run environmental education programmes. Each year, in a sailing season from approximately Easter to October, the Trust offers a series of public sailing trips and wherry viewings, and makes the wherry yachts available for private charter. In recent years, the Trust has also acquired the use of two further wherries: White Moth (1912) and Ardea (1927), allowing further charter income to be generated. Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust The Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust (WYC) is a waterway society and registered charity number 1096073, on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads in East Anglia, England, UK. Wherry"
"Seagull Trust Seagull Trust Cruises (formerly Seagull Trust) is a waterway society and Scottish charity. The Trust was formed in 1978 and offers free canal cruising for disabled and disadvantaged persons and groups. It is the largest service provider of its kind within the UK, and run entirely by volunteers. The Seagull Trust was awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2007, the highest award which can be given to a voluntary group, considered on a par with the MBE awarded to individuals. It provides a service from four locations in Scotland. These are Ratho (Edinburgh) on the Union"
"a residential centre, and ""The Ark"", a floating pontoon base on Barton Broad. Visitors can fish during the season, and many enjoy bird watching whilst on the boats. The Trust offers courses and activities, run by Royal Yachting Association trained staff and 40 volunteers. The Trust is a RYA Training Centre, and runs training courses in sailing throughout the year, which lead to RYA qualifications. Boating charities for disabled persons: Nancy Oldfield Trust The Nancy Oldfield Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust and a registered charity no. 1068549 in Norfolk, East Anglia, England, UK. The Trust is based"
"motor yacht”. The Majestic Line The Majestic Line, ""Argyll Coast Cruises"", is a private cruise line with its headquarters in the Sandbank Marina on the Cowal Peninsula in the West of Scotland. Founded in 2004, it is named after a fictional shipping company that featured in Neil Munro's Tales of Para Handy. , the line operates cruises from Oban to the Islands of the Clyde (Firth of Clyde) and the Inner Hebrides. The company runs a fleet of three vessels, two that were converted from fishing trawlers, the third, a purpose-built vessel, that has the look and feel of a"
"Company, to again run passenger trips around Dartmouth Harbour and up river to Totnes. PS Kingswear Castle PS ""Kingswear Castle"" is a steamship. She is a coal-fired river paddle steamer, dating from 1924 with engines from 1904. After running summer excursions on the River Medway and the Thames for many years she returned to the River Dart in Devon in December 2012 to run excursions from 2013 onwards on the river she was built on and for. ""Kingswear Castle"" is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet of ships of ""Pre-eminent National Significance"". The ""Kingswear Castle"" was built by"
"steaming north up the opposite shore to Brantwood, where one can disembark and visit the home of John Ruskin. Gondola then continues to Monk Coniston at the extreme northern end of the lake, and so completes the loop back to Coniston. Other trips include the ""Explorer Cruise"", which goes to Lake Bank – the extreme south of Coniston Water – the place from where Gondola originally picked up her passengers in the 1860s. The waiting room is still to be seen, recently restored by the Rawdon Smith Trust to the Furness Railway's livery. Alternatively, the ""Wildcat Island"" cruise shows the"
"Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust The Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust (WYC) is a waterway society and registered charity number 1096073, on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads in East Anglia, England, UK. Wherry Yacht Charter originated as a business run by Peter Bower and Barney Matthews, first chartering their wherry yachts Olive and Norada, and later acquiring and restoring pleasure wherry Hathor. The Trust was established in 2002 and its stated aims are to restore, protect and sail the three Norfolk wherries Hathor, Olive and Norada, and to keep them together as the only remaining wherry fleet. Hathor was built"
"Jubilee Sailing Trust Jubilee Sailing Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which owns and operates two square-rigged three-masted barques, the STS ""Lord Nelson"" and the SV ""Tenacious"". The Jubilee Sailing Trust, based in Southampton, is a sail training charity registered with the Charity Commission. Founded in 1978 with money from the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II fund by Christopher Rudd, a keen sailor, its aims are: ""To integrate both able-bodied and disabled persons through Tall Ship sailing"". The JST gets everyone on board involved in sailing the ships to the extent of their abilities, focusing on what"
"the UK. It is a trompe-l'oeil seascape painting that fills a whole wall of the dining room with an imagined scene of Italianate churches, castles, Snowdonian mountains and a complete harbour wall, with tricks of perspective that mean the scenes appear to change when seen from different parts of the room. The house has been owned by the National Trust since 1976. There is now a tearoom and a second-hand bookshop, and historical cruises along the Menai start from the house. The first Marquess's artificial leg is part of an exhibition. In 1949 the training ship HMS ""Conway"" was moored"
"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"
"SS Sir Walter Scott SS ""Sir Walter Scott"" is a small steamship that has provided pleasure cruises and a ferry service on Loch Katrine in the scenic Trossachs of Scotland for more than a century, and is the only surviving screw steamer in regular passenger service in Scotland. It is named after the writer Walter Scott, who set his 1810 poem Lady of the Lake, and his 1818 novel Rob Roy around Loch Katrine. In 1859 Loch Katrine became Glasgow's main water supply, connected by aqueducts and tunnels to the city more than away through a hilly landscape. The Trossachs"
"Brantwood Brantwood is a historic house museum in Cumbria, England, overlooking Coniston Water. It has been the home of a number of prominent people. The house and grounds are administered by a charitable trust, the house being a museum dedicated to John Ruskin, one of its final owners. Brantwood is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and buildings in the grounds are also listed. ""Brant"" is an old Norse word meaning ""steep"" and the house and grounds are situated on a steep wooded area overlooking the lake. Before the house was"
"a catalyst for tourism, social and economic development"". The NCT transferred ownership of ""Nomadic"" to the Titanic Foundation in April 2015. The ship is now run by Titanic Belfast Nomadic Limited and incorporated into the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction. The Nomadic Preservation Society (NPS) was also founded in 2006. Its stated aims include collaboration with the NCT and all other parties involved in preserving ""Nomadic"", including raising and donating funds, conducting historical research and publicising ""Nomadic"" as a tourist attraction. In 2006 the NPS had found and made aware to the NCT of the 1907-built cargo ship on Lake Victoria"
"the traditional craft of hand-painted designs. The number of licensed boats on canals and rivers managed by the Canal & River Trust (CRT), a charitable trust, formerly British Waterways, was estimated at about 27,000 in 2006. By 2014 this number had risen to over 30,000. There were perhaps another 5,000 unlicensed boats kept in private moorings or on other waterways in 2006. Most boats on CRT waterways are steel (or occasionally, aluminium) cruisers popularly referred to as narrowboats. Modern leisure narrowboats are used for holidays, weekend breaks, touring, as permanent or part-time residences. Usually, they have steel hulls and a"
"be the world's oldest mechanically powered boat, and several of the classic Windermere launches. Today the 1900 steamer still sails on Loch Katrine, while on Loch Lomond PS ""Maid of the Loch"" is being restored, and in the English Lakes the oldest operating passenger yacht, SY ""Gondola"" (built 1859, rebuilt 1979), sails daily during the summer season on Coniston Water. The paddle steamer ""Waverley"", built in 1947, is the last survivor of these fleets, and the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. This ship sails a full season of cruises every year from places around Britain, and has sailed"
"be seen working today. The second aqueduct was opened in 1901. Water levels are supplemented via a dam and short tunnel from Loch Arklet, a reservoir located between Loch Katrine itself and Loch Lomond, beside the road to Inversnaid, this project was completed in 1914. A longer tunnel beneath Ben A'an which brings water from the Glen Finglas Reservoir was completed in 1958, with dam being completed in 1965. Oil-fired vessels are not permitted to sail its waters due to the danger of pollution to the drinking water of Glasgow. The steamboat SS Sir Walter Scott has provided sailings on"
"to relocate the steam ships when not under steam. John Oxley is a steamship that previously served as a pilot boat and lighthouse and buoy tender. The ship was built in Scotland in 1927 for the Queensland state government. Kanangara is a 1912 Sydney Ferries Limited steel and wooden ferry A 1950s wooden speed boat Sydney Heritage Fleet Sydney Heritage Fleet, is the trading name of Sydney Maritime Museum Ltd., a public (non-profit) company in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Fleet restores and operates a number of historic vessels including the barque ""James Craig"". In 2003 the International Congress"
"a strictly enforced speed limit, but the rest of the loch open to speeds of up to . The ""Maid of the Loch"" was the last paddle steamer built in Britain. Built on the Clyde in 1953, she operated on Loch Lomond for 29 years. She is now being restored at Balloch pier by the Loch Lomond Steamship Company, a charitable organisation, supported by West Dunbartonshire Council. Cruises also operate from Balloch, Tarbet, Inversnaid, Luss and Rowardennan. Loch Lomond Rescue Boat provides 24-hour safety cover on the loch. The rescue boat is a volunteer organisation and a registered charity. The"
"Poole Dorset with cruises along the Jurassic Coast and around Brownsea island with the boats Solent Scene and Island Scene. In 2017 City Cruises expanded to York by purchasing the former YorkBoat company and renaming it City Cruises York City Cruises City Cruises is a public limited company that operates scheduled public sightseeing cruises on the River Thames in London, serving Westminster, London Eye, Tower and Greenwich piers every day throughout the year. It operates the services mainly using purpose-built wheelchair-accessible 'RiverLiner' vessels, which have a large open top deck and enclosed lower saloon with panoramic windows and bars, backed"