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Alaska
Alaska Page 4: Overhaul & Launching at Wargrave
28th January 2008
This is one of a series of Simplon pages devoted to postcards and photographs of Thames passenger boats. This page shows
Alaska
being launched after her 2008 overhaul and repainting at Bushnell Marine, Wargrave. She reappeared with a paler cream hull and simplified lettered on her name.
Alaska
is operated by
Thames Steamers
.
Alaska
was built in 1883 by Horsham & Co. of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire and she was subsequently purchased in 1887 from W.H. Barbrook of Walton-on-Thames for whom she had been built. Her new owners were the Oxford firm of Salter Brothers, who used her on the weekly return service from Oxford to Kingston and back. Passengers spent the day on the boat, enjoying the delightful scenery along the journey, and stayed ashore in different hotels each night. In later years
Alaska
was used as a private party boat at Oxford.
Alaska
served in the wartime Thames River Patrol, was then sold in 1942 for service further down the river with
Joseph Mears
and was laid up shortly afterwards. After withdrawal,
Alaska
is reputed to have been poled from Kingston to Oxford by a new owner. She settled in shallow water, was decked over and used as a boat hire pontoon. In 1974 she was rediscovered and identified by boat historians, ex-crew members and Lloyds. After being brought to a boatyard at Hurley, further research located her original engine at Kingston. Boat and engine were restored over a period of several years and a new boiler provided.
In 1999,
Alaska
was acquired by Susanne & David Williams and leased to
Thames Steamers
for Thames charter work. From 2006,
Alaska
was owned and operated by her skipper Peter Green. Additional history and images, plus charter details, are available on the
Thames Steamers
website.
Alaska Contact:-
www.thames-steamers.co.uk
Alaska Pages:-
Alaska Header Page
Alaska Page 1 - History
Alaska Page 1b - Maidenhead-Marlow
- Photos from a cruise: 1st October 2005
Alaska Page 2 - Bourne End Cruise 2006
- Photos from a short cruise: 29th May 2006
Alaska Page 3 - Teddington Cruise 2006
- Photos from a short cruise: 29th May 2006
Alaska Page 4 - Wargrave 2008
- launching after overhaul: 28th January 2008
- this page!
Alaska Page 5 - Bourne End 2008
- public trips from Bourne End Marina
Thames Passenger Boat Company Pages:-
River Thames - Header Page
- other operators
French Brothers
- Simplon Page
Salter Brothers
- Simplon Page
www.salterssteamers.co.uk
- Salter Brothers Official Website
www.thames-steamers.co.uk
- Thames Steamers Official Website
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Overhaul & Launching at Wargrave
28th January 2008
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