Dover Harbour Board

MV Director Director – © Nigel Thornton Glass reinforced plastic hulled, twin screw built in 1996 by Aquastar Workboats Carrigaline Co. Cork  (Yard No. 60) for Dover Harbour Board as…

MV Svitzer Intrepid Ex Adsteam Intrepid, Champion, Tadami Maru © Robert J Smith (Tilbury, 02/06/2018) Steel twin (fully azimuthing ZP 31 Z-Peller propulsion units) screw motor vessel built in 2005…

Granville Iron paddle-steam tug, built in 1876 by Westwood Baillie, London (Yard No ), for Dover Harbour Board. Technical Data Length: 101.0 ft (overall) (between perpendiculars) Breadth: 10.1 ft Depth: 10.4 ft Draught:…

Lady Savile Ex Penlee, Sir Richard Grenvile (I) Iron twin screw turbine vessel built in 1891 by Cammell Laird Brothers of Birkenhead (Build Order no. 583, Yard No V0580) as…

Lady Curzon Steel twin screw steam tug built in by JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields (Yard No 233). Technical Data Length: 120 ft (overall) (between perpendiculars) Breadth: 25.1 ft Depth: 12…

Lingdale Ex DHB Lady Vita Iron paddle-steam tug, built in 1882 by Westwood Baillie, London (Yard No 291), for Dover Harbour Board. Technical Data Length: 107.7 ft (overall) (between perpendiculars) Breadth: 20.1…

SS Lagos Hercules, ex Hercules, DHB Lady Crundall - Steam twin screw salvage steamer built in 1906 by J P Rennoldson & Co, South Shields (Yard No 246) for Dover…

MV Admiral Day - Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 1971 by J W Cook & Co (Wivenhoe) Ltd. Wivenhoe, UK (Yard No 1414) as a Hopper Dredger

Cardiff Rose - ex Lady Duncannon - Steel twin screw steam tug, built in 1914 by J P Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields (Yard No 291), for Dover Harbour Board.

MV Delphinus - ex DHB Delphinus - Steel twin screw diesel-engined passenger tender built in 1957 by P K Harris, Appledore (Yard no 106) for the Dover Harbour Board.

DHB Lady Brassey - ex HMS Lady Brassey, Lady Brassey - Steam twin screw salvage steamer built by J P Rennoldson & Co, South Shields (Yard No 285) in 1913…

Project 45, Camber In-Fill Nigel Thornton Collection     Nigel Thornton Collection (both) “In January 1984 work started on the construction of 4.13 hectare area of land for the much…

After the transfer of much of British Rail’s classical passenger services to Folkestone and to relieve the heavily used ramps at the Eastern Docks, a new car ferry berth was…

The Prince of Wales Pier was completed in May 1902, having been started ten years earlier. The then Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone in 1893. Preliminary designs were…

With ships becoming much larger only vessels built up to and before the early 1970’s could fit into the original train ferry dock situated within Dover Western Docks. The new…

It is probably hard to believe that it is now over sixty years since motorists were first able to drive their cars directly on and off the ships at the…