Registration number 261
Status Archived
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Details

Function Passenger Vessel
Location NONE
Archive reason Disposed
Current use None
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Jacobs, Arthur, Windsor
Built in 1923
Rig None
Number of decks 2
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
15.57 feet (4.75m)
Depth
3.90 feet (1.19m)
Length: Overall
93.93 feet (28.65m)
Tonnage: Gross
85.00

History

The NEW WINDSOR CASTLE was built in 1923 by Arthur Jacobs at Windsor as a sister ship to the Grand Duchess, to join Windsor Belle and Empress of India in the Jacobs fleet. They were all driven by steam. The NEW WINDOSR CASTLE had a varnished hull and inverted compound engines by E Hayes & Sons. When war began, the Ministry of Transport first called her up as part of the Emergency River Transport Service at the time of heavy raids in the captial. This scheme was designed to relieve congestion suffrered by commuters through the shattered streets of London. Then she was one of twenty similar Thames passengers boats to go to Dunkirk. Her low freeboard could only have survived the crossings in a flat, calm sea and this of course was one of the miracles of Dunkirk. The NEW WINDSOR CASTLE was subsequently owned by M J Turk, by Appointment Waterman to Her Majesty the Queen, when she was available for charter. In 2004, she was recorded as having been disposed of.

 

Key dates

  • 1923

    Vessel built by Arthur Jacobs, Windsor
  • 2004

    Vessel recorded to have been disposed

Sources

Brann, Christian, The Little Ships of Dunkirk: 1940-1990, Collectors Books Ltd, 1989
Hamer, Geoffrey, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995

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