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Built in 1948, DARTMOUTH CASTLE is a passenger vessel with the capacity for 309 passengers. She has been fully restored to her original specification, with her hull shot-blasted and epoxy coated and runs birdwatching trips during the winter on the River Exe, operating a ferry service in the summer months on the River Exe, Dart and around Torbay
Built by Philip & Son at Noss on the River Dart as a Passenger Vessel for River Dart Steamship Co.
Used as a Passenger vessel by the River Dart Steamboat Co.
Sold to the Millbrook Steamboat Co.
Sold to Dart Pleasure Craft
Sold to Mike Palmer of Dart Pleasure Craft wanted to convert the vessel to the original specification of a passenger vessel capable of carrying 297 in the river and 250 passengers at sea
Vessel is thought to be on the River Dart out of service
Geoffrey Hamer, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles (1995) pub: G P Hamer
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