Name Dover Completed June 1965 Name Earl Siward Length 112 m | Yard number 2013 Identification IMO 6510784 Launched 17 March 1965 | |
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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.

Entered the National Historic ships register in 2016 and is currently waiting too be restored by the Tuxedo Royale Restoration project.




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