LAST OF THE PADDLE STEAMERS (IN COLOUR)

(5 Dec 1963) A National Appeal has just been launched to try to raise enough money to preserve "Medway Queen", the paddle steamer, that has brought colour and pleasure to some 2 million passengers over the past 40 years. She's remembered with gratitude by the 7,000 servicemen she brought back from Dunkirk, making no less than 7 channel crossings. It was a sad day for Captain Leonard Horsham, when she began her last trip this Summer. The last of the Thames paddle steamers, she could no longer pay her way, and there seemed no alternative than the breakers' yard. Will the "Medway Queen" have to go that sad, last way?
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[@tomlee812]

I was lucky enough to have sailed on her when she was in service. She is now preserved at Gillingham Pier in Kent.

[@itzjustbryan123]

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[@RailPreserver2K]

What happened to this boat

[@FamilyShorta]

It got redone and is in operation

[@dartskipper3170]

@@FamilyShorta Unable to be licensed for passenger carrying because her construction doesn't meet current regulations. She was restored to her original condition to meet the requirements of the grant awarded, but had to be surveyed as a new vessel because she had been out of certificate for decades. So really she is the World's largest replica paddle steamer.

[@MrGw1982]

She is not the last there is the paddle steamer waverly

[@FamilyShorta]

Graham, I agree!!!! I am going onto the Waverley tommrow!