The most famous Nile river cruise boat of them all, the paddle steamer Sudan, which both inspired the novel and featured in the film "Death on the Nile".
The most famous Nile river cruise boat of them all, the paddle steamer Sudan, which both inspired the novel and featured in the film "Death on the Nile".
Looking aft on the Kingswear Castle. I love all the timber work.
Below the open hatch is the steam engine that still looks like new even though it is around 100 years old.
She is the only working coal fired paddle steamer left in Britain we were told.
Original builders name stamped on the side of the main engine on the Kingswear Castle, which is taken from the vessel of the same name and now rotting on the bank of the River Dart.
Tattershall Castle built 1934 in Hartlepool, for LNER, as a passenger ferry on the River Humber, operating between Hull and New Holland,
On a recent visit to London I noted that she has been painted blue - horrible - I have posted this photo from 1988 when she still looked the part even if she