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Jake Angus
Member
Username: qramgy
Post Number: 71
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 10:41 pm: | 
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Is there a White Star Line Tender docked on the North side of the Thames, just East of Waterloo Foot Bridge? I swear I saw one in April '98. |
Mark Baber
Moderator
Username: mab
Post Number: 813
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 3:42 pm: |
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Nope. The only floating part of the White Star fleet is Nomadic's hull, currently at Le Havre.
MAB
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http://www.greatships.net/
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Colleen Collier
Member
Username: colleen
Post Number: 1238
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 7:17 pm: |
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Did you spot it in the movie Entrapment? I too could sware they have a few second pan of a ship with White Star colors in the background.
Colleen
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Alex McLean
Member
Username: alex_mclean
Post Number: 318
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 1:44 am: |
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There is a ship on the Themes named the Queen Mary. At first glance, I thought it was a White Star ship, but closer examination proved the funnel caps to be blue. Hope this helps!
My best 
Alex
Maintain speed and heading,
Second Officer Alex McLean, 15, Vic, Australia
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Jake Angus
Member
Username: qramgy
Post Number: 73
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 3:09 am: |
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I swear I saw a White Star tender. Next time I'm in Blighty I'm going back for another look. I was too busy drinking Hampstead dry  on my last visit in March '01! |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7144
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 10:34 am: |
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Jake, I don't see how it could be a White Star tender when the only one still around is the Nomadic. I'm looking at a photo of the Queen Mary on page 3 of the October 2003 issue of Ships Monthly, and at a glance, she bears an uncanny resemblance to the White Star boats. She now exists as a floating restaurant on the Thames.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Inger Sheil
Moderator
Username: isheil
Post Number: 2211
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 11:44 am: |
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Here's the TS Queen Mary on the Thames (and yes, she does make you do a double-take on first glance):
http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/maritime/queen%20mary.htm
http://www.queenmary.co.uk/qm_home.html
Besides, of course, HMS Belfast there are a few permanantly moored vessels on the Thames:
Wellington (I'm fond of this one - she's the livery hall for the Honourable Company of Master Mariners)
Hispaniola (formerly the Maid of Ashton, now a floating restaurant)
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tramways/MaidofAshton.htm
Tattershall Castle (Paddle steamer, formerly of the Humber, now a floating pub).
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tramways/TattershallCastle.htm
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Matthew Ryan Jones
Member
Username: big3ohio
Post Number: 14
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 2:16 pm: |
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Is the NOMADIC complete? Or is she (sadly) just sitting there rusting like the UNITED STATES is in America? |
Nicolas Roughol
Member
Username: roughol
Post Number: 66
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 5:26 pm: |
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Matthew,
Too bad the late "Nomadic in Danger" thread has gone to the bin, it would have prove useful to you...
Anyway, Nomadic had been docked on the Seine in Paris for about 30 years, until earlier this year when she was moved to Le Havre to be examined in dry-dock. During that moving process, her superstructure was cut out, though that superstructure itself was not the original one. Right now she is still berthed at Le Havre awaiting dry-dock examination to show if and how she could be restored. Only her hull and lower decks are preserved.
www.nomadic.fr.st (french site but easy to navigate through anyway) has the most recent pictures of her in Le Havre. |
Jake Angus
Member
Username: qramgy
Post Number: 77
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 4:47 am: |
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It's the Queen Mary. Now, the only excuse to go back to London is the pubs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
John Creamer
Member
Username: japs
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 22, 2004 - 2:14 pm: |
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There is an aged tender (size) vessel currently moored in St. Katherine's Dock (London), with a painted metal white star attached to it's bows. Perhaps this is what you saw Jake? Any resemblance to a White Star Line vessel is purely coincidental. |
Inger Sheil
Moderator
Username: isheil
Post Number: 3274
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 22, 2004 - 10:56 pm: |
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Hallo John! Always good to see you here. The Queen Mary is certainly the vessel to which Jake referred, but you have me intrigued by the reference to the vessel in St Katherine's Dock. I don't recall seeing it there - is it a new arrival, or did I miss the star? One of the curators of the Docklands Museum is currently in Sydney - perhaps I'll ask her! |
John Creamer
Member
Username: japs
Post Number: 4
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 5:38 pm: |
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Inger, working on the assumption that a picture is greater than thousand words, I have tried to upload an image of the vessel in question. Unfortunately the ET website will not allow me to do it as this exceeds the permitted memory space. Anyway, if you are able to find anything out from your museum friend the ship is called 'Leonie' (no, not Leonic).
Regards, John |
