Leonard Bentley
Charing Cross Pier
A close up view of a packed London County Council paddle steamer, Earl Godwin, one of the thirty paddle steamers built for the LCC riverboat service in 1905. She was built in Glasgow by the Napier & Miller company at a cost of £6000.00 and named after the father of King Harold of Hastings fame. The riverboat service collapsed in 1907 and in 1909 she was sold to the City steamboat company for £393.00, they later sold her to a company in Dumbarton where she was renamed "Queen Mary".
Charing Cross Pier
A close up view of a packed London County Council paddle steamer, Earl Godwin, one of the thirty paddle steamers built for the LCC riverboat service in 1905. She was built in Glasgow by the Napier & Miller company at a cost of £6000.00 and named after the father of King Harold of Hastings fame. The riverboat service collapsed in 1907 and in 1909 she was sold to the City steamboat company for £393.00, they later sold her to a company in Dumbarton where she was renamed "Queen Mary".