Streatley | National Historic Ships

Registration number 279

Status Registered

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Details

Function Passenger Vessel

Subfunction Excursion

Location Runnymede

Vessel type Excursion

Current use Commercial Activity

Available to hire Yes

Available for excursions Yes

Web address www.frenchbrothers.co.uk

Construction

Builder Salter Brothers Ltd, Oxford

Built in 1905

Hull material Steel

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Steam

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Steam

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

12.98 feet (3.96m)

Depth

3.97 feet (1.21m)

Length: Overall

84.95 feet (25.91m)

History

Built in 1905, STREATLEY is a river passenger vessel with a steel hull and the capacity for 182 passengers. She was built by Salter Brothers, Oxford and operated on the Upper Thames, upstream as far as Oxford and downstream as far as Staines. After being laid up, she was sold in 1995/96 and continued to run charter trips. Her engine is a W H Dorman internal, combustion, 53kw. 1995 saw STREATLEY return to the river once again fitted with her original steam engine and coal fired boiler. She was stripped to a bare hull, repaired where necessary and then rebuilt with new saloon and returned to her old livery of black and green. She operated on the whole length of the Thames making numerous forays into the tidal river where she was licensed to Greenwich. In the autumn of 2010, she was moved to Windsor for restoration with an aim to have her back chartering as soon as possible.

She is now moored in Runnymede.

Key dates

2012
Vessel selected for Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012

Sources

Hamer, Geoffrey, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995
The Funnel: Autumn on the Thames, pp36, Edition 165, 2015