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The turbine steamship TSS Dover - later renamed the Earl Siward, Sol Express and finally the Tuxedo Royale - was built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off ferry and spent much of her later life as a floating nightspot beneath the Tyne Bridge,The Tuxedo closed in 2006 and owners Absolute Leisure went into administration three years later.
In its heyday, thousands of people partied aboard the boat and its sister vessel:
Visited here with Fat Panda after a rather boring hospital in Durham. When we arrived the gap to the boat was a little bigger than expected and instead of jumping and falling in the water/sludge beneath us we found some wood and bodged a bridge together
We spent a while having a look around and although its wrecked in there it still makes for a interesting mooch! Our visit was cut short due to secca busting us as he heard us on his patrol, after we stepped off the boat he threw our bodged bridge into the water
Cheers for looking
In its heyday, thousands of people partied aboard the boat and its sister vessel:
Visited here with Fat Panda after a rather boring hospital in Durham. When we arrived the gap to the boat was a little bigger than expected and instead of jumping and falling in the water/sludge beneath us we found some wood and bodged a bridge together
We spent a while having a look around and although its wrecked in there it still makes for a interesting mooch! Our visit was cut short due to secca busting us as he heard us on his patrol, after we stepped off the boat he threw our bodged bridge into the water
Cheers for looking
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