Tilbury and Gravesend Ferry
From Graces Guide
Tilbury and Gravesend Ferry.[1]
There had been facilities for crossing the river between Tilbury and Gravesend since Saxon times, but the first ferry boats were introduced about 1855. The service was taken over by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway a few years later, then passed to the Midland Railway (1912), the L.M.S.R. (1923) and British Railways (1948) as each was in turn absorbed by a greater organisation.
The ferry provides conveyance for all types of vehicles, but prior to 1893 only passengers were conveyed.
The past and present ferry steamers are as follows: —
- PS Cato
- Earl of Essex
- Earl of Leicester
- PS Sir Walter Raleigh (1855)
- PS Thames (1868)
- PS Tilbury
- TSS Carlotta
- TSS Rose
- TSS Catherine
- TSS Gertrude
- TSS Edith
- TSS Tessa
- TSS Mimie
All machinery made by ship’s builders excepting that for TILBURY which was made by Penn, Greenwich, and that for SIR WALTER RALEIGH by Henderson, Colbourn, Renfrew.
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Steamers of the Thames and Medway' by Frank Burtt