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Victoria Embankment
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![PS <I>Tattershall Castle</I> alongside Victoria Embankment on the Thames upstream from Charing Cross (Hungerford) Bridge in March 1976, in use as a floating pub/restuarant. Built in 1934 for the LNER, this was one of the last of a trio of paddle steamers used on the Humber Ferry. The others were PS Lincoln Castle and PS Wingfield Castle, now a floating exhibit at the Hartlepool Maritime Experience Museum. The vessel astern is the 'Hispaniola', another restaurant ship, originally the TSMV <I>Maid of Ashton</I>, one of the four Clyde 'Maids', now much modified.<br><br>[John McIntyre /03/1976]](/images/31000/31941.jpg "Victoria Embankment")
![One of the Clyde <I>Maids</I> the TSMV <I>Maid of Ashton</I>, originally entered service on the Gourock - Holy Loch route in May 1953. Seen here transformed on the River Thames as the floating restaurant <I>Hispaniola</I>, moored alongside Hungerford Bridge in early 1980. [See image 31941]<br><br>[Colin Miller //1980]](/images/32000/32944.jpg "Victoria Embankment")
