Leonard Bentley
Old Swan Pier
This is a photograph of the paddle steamer "Royal Sovereign" leaving Old Swan Pier with her articulated funnels laid flat in order to negotiate passage under the Old London Bridge. It is May 1925 and not particularly warm by the look of it, the steamer is being operated by the Royal Sovereign Steamship Company on its north Kent route to Margate and Ramsgate. The "Royal Sovereign" was built by Fairfields on the Clyde in 1893 for New Palace Steamers a subsidiary of the Victoria Steamboat Association. The New Palace fleet consisted of the "Royal Sovereign", "Koh-I-Noor" and "La Marguerite". During the first world war she was laid up at Tilbury and in 1918 was sold to the Royal Sovereign Steamship Co and worked until 1929 when she was sold to Dutch shipbreakers.
Old Swan Pier
This is a photograph of the paddle steamer "Royal Sovereign" leaving Old Swan Pier with her articulated funnels laid flat in order to negotiate passage under the Old London Bridge. It is May 1925 and not particularly warm by the look of it, the steamer is being operated by the Royal Sovereign Steamship Company on its north Kent route to Margate and Ramsgate. The "Royal Sovereign" was built by Fairfields on the Clyde in 1893 for New Palace Steamers a subsidiary of the Victoria Steamboat Association. The New Palace fleet consisted of the "Royal Sovereign", "Koh-I-Noor" and "La Marguerite". During the first world war she was laid up at Tilbury and in 1918 was sold to the Royal Sovereign Steamship Co and worked until 1929 when she was sold to Dutch shipbreakers.