Dartmouth Steam Railway and Riverboat Company (2012)[1]
Route
River Dart (1924)
River Medway and Thames (1985)
River Dart (2013)
Ordered
1924
Builder
Philip and Son, Dartmouth, UK
Launched
1924
Identification
MMSI number: 235007618
Callsign: MCGH6
Status
Active
General characteristics
Type
Paddle steamer
Length
113.75 ft (34.67 m) LOA
108.14 ft (32.96 m) LBP
Beam
17.43 ft (5.31 m)
Draught
3.43 ft (1.05 m)
Propulsion
Compound Diagonal Steam engine (1904) built by Cox and Co of Falmouth
PS Kingswear Castle is a steamship. She is a coal-fired river paddle steamer, dating from 1924 with engines from 1904. After running summer excursions on the River Medway and the Thames for many years she returned to the River Dart in Devon in December 2012 to run excursions from 2013 onwards on the river she was built on and for. Kingswear Castle is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet of ships of "Pre-eminent National Significance".
^"Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle". Dartmouth Steam Railway and Riverboat Company. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
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