TSS Dover
 TSS Dover, as the Tuxedo Royale, in Middlesbrough dock, England, in 2004
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| Name | TSS Dover |
| Port of registry |  United Kingdom |
| Builder | list error: <br /> list (help) Swan Hunter (River Tyne) Wallsend, England[1] |
| Yard number | 2013[1] |
| Launched | 17 March 1965[1] |
| Completed | June 1965[1] |
| Identification | IMO: 6510784[1] |
| History | |
| Name | Earl Siward |
| History | |
| Name | Sol Express |
| History | |
| Name | Tuxedo Royale |
| Status | Stored on the River Tees in Middlesbrough |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | RORO ferry |
| Tonnage | 3,602 GT[1] |
| Length | list error: <br /> list (help) 112.5 metres (369 ft) (overall)[1] 105.6 metres (346 ft) LPP[1] |
| Beam | 17.4 metres (57 ft)[1] |
| Installed power | Steam turbines[1] |
| Propulsion | Twin-screws[1] |
| Speed | 19.5 kts[1] |
| Capacity | 820 DWT[1] |
TSS Dover, (later the Earl Siward, Sol Express and now the Tuxedo Royale), is a British built turbine steamship. Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as a one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being stored out of use, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough.
TSS Dover was built on the River Tyne in England by Swan Hunter in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear. She was launched on 17 March 1965 and completed by June 1965. In 1977 she was renamed Earl Siward, and again in 1982 as the Sol Express. In 1993 she became the nightclub the Tuxedo Royale.[1]
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