Previous names
- 1949 - 1963 Mid Tyne Ferry No.3
- 1963 - 1987 Tyne Queen
Details
Construction
Dimensions
History
Built in 1949 by Hawthorn, Leslie at Hebburn-on-Tyne, JACOBITE QUEEN is a passenger vessel with a capacity for 159 passengers. She has a 150 bhp Gardner diesel 6L3B engine.
Between 1949-1963, she operated as a passenger ferry across the River Tyne for the Mid Tyne Ferry Co., and re-named TYNE QUEEN in late 1953. Between 1963-1987, she continued operating the same ferry route but for the Swan Hunter Shipyard 3.
From 1987 she operated as a day passenger vessel based at Inverness and cruising to Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal. Her most recent owners were Jacobite Cruises, and she was put up for sale in May 2024.
As of March 2026, JACOBITE QUEEN is under new ownership and has relocated to Falmouth, Cornwall, where she will operate from Prince of Wales Pier, Falmouth, on River Trips along the River Fal and Malpas Truro River.
Sources
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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