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Complete Pleasure Boats
This page is devoted to the Thames excusion boat operators Complete Pleasure Boats.
This is one a of series of
Simplon Postcards
pages devoted to
River Thames Excursion Boats
.
Complete Pleasure Boats operate two heritage vessels, the
Henley
of 1896 and
Viscount
of 1908. Both have been sympathetically updated to make them suitable for 21st Century operation.
Henley
operates on Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court runs, and also serves on the weekday Blackfriars-Putney commuter services of
Thames Executive Charters
, who also offer charters on her.
Viscount
is maintained solely for charter use.
Contacts:-
www.thamesriverboats.co.uk
- for Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court services
www.completepleasureboats.co.uk
- for charters
www.thamesexecutivecharters.com
- for Putney-Blackfriars commuter services
Boats on this Page:-
Henley
- built: 1896
Viscount
- built: 1908
Thames Passenger Boat Pages:-
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- Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court services -
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- Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court services -
Thames River Boats
Joseph Mears
- Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court services 1907-1945 - passed to
Thames Launches
King Cruises
- Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court services -
Thames River Boats
Maynard Launches
- Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court services -
Thames River Boats
Salter Brothers
- Oxford-Abingdon-Wallingford-Reading-Henley-Marlow-Maidenhead-Windsor-Staines services
www.completepleasureboats.co.uk
- official website for charters
www.thamesexecutivecharters.com
- official website for Blackfriars-Putney commuter service
www.thamesriverboats.co.uk
- official website for Hampton Court services
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Table of Individual Boat Pages
Name
Other names
Built
Henley
1896
Viscount
1908
Complete Pleasure Boats
Henley
The steam launch
Henley
was built for Salter Brothers of Oxford by Edwin Clarke and Company of Brimscombe in 1896. She served with Salters for over seventy years, before being sold in 1976 to J.J.Shearing (later J.& R.Shearing) for services from Westminster to Kew, Richmond and Hampton Court. She was sold to Ed Langley as
Complete Pleasure Boats
for the 2002 season, and operates on Westminster-Kew-Hampton Court runs, and she also serves on the weekday Putney-Blackfriars commuter services of
Thames Executive Charters
, who also offer charters on her.
More images of
Henley
Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th May 2003.
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Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th May 2003.
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Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th May 2003.
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Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 26th May 2003.
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Henley
at Westminster
26th May 2003
Photo: © Ian Boyle
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Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 7th April 2005.
Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 7th April 2005.
Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 7th April 2005.
Henley
at Westminster with raised wheelhouse
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 11th March 2006.
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Henley
at Hampton Court
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 6th June 2006
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Henley
at Hampton Court
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 6th June 2006
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Henley
at Westminster
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
at Kew Gardens Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
at Kew Gardens Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
at Kew Gardens Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
at Charing Cross on her evening commuter run
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
passing Charing Cross on the way to Blackfriars for her evening commuter run
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
passing Charing Cross on the way to Blackfriars for her evening commuter run
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
at Charing Cross on her evening commuter run
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
at Charing Cross on her evening commuter run
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 3rd May 2007
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Henley
on her evening commuter run to Putney
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 17th July 2007
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Henley
on her evening commuter run to Putney
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 17th July 2007
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Henley
on her evening commuter run to Putney
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 17th July 2007
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Henley
arriving at Festival Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 16th February 2008
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Henley
arriving at Festival Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 16th February 2008
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Henley
arriving at Festival Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 16th February 2008
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Henley
arriving at Festival Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 16th February 2008
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Henley
passing Butler's Wharf
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 16th February 2008
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Henley
passing Canary Wharf
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 16th February 2008
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Viscount
(built: 1908)
In 1908,
Joseph Mears
bought the first of nine large launches built for him by
Salter Brothers
, the
Viscount
of 106ft and 395 passengers. She was one of the largest launches of the middle Thames when built.
Viscount
passed to
Thames Launches
with the rest of the
Mears
fleet in 1947, and ran for Thompsons Launches from 1971 until the mid-1990s when she passed to Campion Launches. In 2006 she passed to Ed Langley and runs with
Henley
for Complete Pleasure Boats.
The complete list of
Salters
boats built for Mears were the