TSS Dover
 TSS Dover, as the Tuxedo Royale, in Middlesbrough dock, England, in 2004
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Dover |
| Port of registry |  |
| Builder |
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| Yard number | 2013[1] |
| Launched | 17 March 1965[1] |
| Completed | June 1965[1] |
| Identification | IMO: 6510784[1] |
| Name | Earl Siward |
| Namesake | Siward, Earl of Northumbria |
| Name | Sol Express |
| Name | Tuxedo Royale |
| Status | Laid up on the River Tees in Middlesbrough |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | RORO ferry |
| Tonnage | 3,602 GT[1] |
| Length | |
| Beam | 17.4 m (57 ft)[1] |
| Installed power | Steam Turbines[1] |
| Propulsion | Twin screws[1] |
| Speed | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h)[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 one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being laid up, 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]
Entered the National Historic ships register in 2016 and is currently waiting too be restored by the Tuxedo Royale Restoration project.
On 1 June 2017 she was badly damaged by fire.[2]
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