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Thames River Services are owned by three companies: Crown River Cruises, Viscount Cruises and Westminster Party Boats. [1] The TRS boat M.V. Thomas Doggett, of 524 seats and costing £2.5m was built in the Netherlands and launched in July 2017. [2] The launch was attended by Lord Mayor of London, Andrew Parmley. [3]
Westminster Passenger Services Association (regularly advertised as Thames River Boats) [1] is a provider of regularly scheduled boat services on the River Thames in London. . It is licensed by London River Services to run daily services from Westminster Pier to Kew Pier, with longer cruises also available which continue upriver to Richmond landing stage and Hampton Court landing stage.
With these numerous north–south crossings of the Thames, which is generally no more than 300m wide as it runs through central London, the revival of river boat services in London therefore mostly travel east or west along the Thames rather than across it; the only major cross-river ferry services are to be found further downstream where the ...
The Canary Wharf - Rotherhithe Ferry, also operated by Uber Boat by Thames Clippers, links Canary Wharf Pier with Doubletree Docklands Nelson Dock Pier at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Rotherhithe. The service uses smaller boats than the commuter service but runs at a higher frequency of roughly every 10 minutes.
Thames Leisure is a river boat company which provides leisure cruises for both corporate and private clients on the River Thames in London, United Kingdom. Established in 1984, Thames Leisure acquired Tideway in 1987 and ran hourly cruises from Westminster to the Tate gallery and London Bridge. The fleet later expanded with the arrival of ...
On 3 August 2011, 19-year-old ferry worker Ben Woollacott died after falling off the boat into the River Thames. [38] The MAIB report published in August 2012 blamed "unseamanlike working practices" during the unmooring operation for the death. [39] When two new ships were bought to update the service in 2018, one was named after him. [40]
Chelsea Harbour Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in London, United Kingdom.It is located on the North Bank of the Thames, in the Sands End area of Fulham.The pier serves the redeveloped Chelsea Harbour, a former commercial wharf which has been converted to luxury residential use.
Kew Pier or Kew Gardens Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in London, United Kingdom.It stands close to Kew Gardens and Kew Bridge in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and is serviced by passenger boats operated by Westminster Passenger Services Association (regularly advertised as Thames River Boats).