TSS Dover

TSS Dover, as the Tuxedo Royale, in Middlesbrough dock, England, in 2004
History
Name:	Dover
Port of registry:
Builder:	Swan Hunter (River Tyne) Wallsend, England[1]
Yard number:	2013[1]
Launched:	17 March 1965[1]
Completed:	June 1965[1]
Identification:	IMO: 6510784[1]
Name:	Earl Siward
Namesake:	Siward, Earl of Northumbria
Name:	Sol Express
Name:	Tuxedo Royale
Status:	Laid up on the River Tees in Middlesbrough
General characteristics
Type:	RORO ferry
Tonnage:	3,602 GT[1]
Length:	112.5 m (369 ft) (overall)[1] 105.6 m (346 ft) LPP[1]
Beam:	17.4 m (57 ft)[1]
Installed power:	steam turbines[1]
Propulsion:	twin screws[1]
Speed:	19.5 knots (36.1 km/h)[1]
Capacity:	820 DWT[1]

TSS Dover, (later the Earl Siward, Sol Express and now the Tuxedo Royale), is a British built turbine steamship. Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being laid up, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough.

TSS Dover was built on the River Tyne in England by Swan Hunter in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear. She was launched on 17 March 1965 and completed by June 1965. In 1977 she was renamed Earl Siward, and again in 1982 as the Sol Express. In 1993 she became the nightclub the Tuxedo Royale.^[1]

External links

The project website - www.tssdover.co.uk

References

1. "Dover (6510784)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 13 August 2009. (subscription required (help)).