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The ''PS Tattershall Castle'' is now moored on the River Thames at the Embankment, and is used as a floating pub and restaurant. It was refitted at Hull Dockyard in 2015 at a cost of several million pounds. == History == The steamer was built by William Gray & Co. in 1934〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/maritime/ps%20tattershall%20castle.htm )〕 as a passenger ferry on the River Humber for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). She plied a route between Corporation Pier in Kingston upon Hull and New Holland Pier Station, New Holland. During the Second World War she found service as a tether for barrage balloons and for troop transfer on the Humber estuary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/ships/TattershallCastle.asp )〕 After the war, with the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, she became part of British Rail's Sealink service. In 1973, after long service as a passenger and goods ferry, she was retired from service and laid up. In 1976 the ship was towed to London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/72/tattershall-castle )〕 Repairs on the ship were deemed too costly and she was retired from service. The opening of the Humber Bridge made the ferry service, known to have existed since at least Roman times,〔'Broomhill - Brougham', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 405-409. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50836 Date accessed: 25 March 2009.〕 redundant. PS Tattershall Castle was first opened on the Thames as a floating art gallery until her eventual disposal to the Chef and Brewer group. Before opening in 1982 as a restaurant,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thetattershallcastle.co.uk/about )〕 she was sent to the Medway for further repairs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/maritime/ps%20tattershall%20castle.htm )〕 A sister ship also launched in 1934, the PS ''Wingfield Castle'', is preserved at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience. A third similar Humber ferry, the PS ''Lincoln Castle'', built in 1940, was scrapped in Autumn 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PS Tattershall Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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