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The Tuxedo Princess moored beneath the Tyne Bridge, September 2005. The Glasshouse is the building in the background.. The Tuxedo Princess (ex-TSS Caledonian Princess) and Tuxedo Royale (ex-TSS Dover) were two former car ferries used as permanently moored floating nightclubs in the United Kingdom from the 1980s to the 2000s.
TSS Dover, (later the Earl Siward, Sol Express and now the Tuxedo Royale), was a British ferry.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.
The Gateshead side of the river is designated and signposted as Gateshead Quays. It is the site of the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music . Also moored on the Gateshead side from 1984 until 2008 was the Tuxedo Princess (replaced for a time by sister ship Tuxedo Royale ), a floating nightclub ...
Second Tyne vehicle tunnel A19 road: Tyne and Wear: 25 Feb 2011: 54°59′14″N 1°29′5″W: First Tyne vehicle tunnel A19 road: Tyne and Wear: 19 Oct 1967: 54°59′14″N 1°29′8″W: Tyne pedestrian and cyclist tunnel Walkway, bike lane: South Tyneside [2], North Tyneside [2] 24 Jul 1951: 54°59′16″N 1°29′15″W [2] Gateshead ...
The River Tyne / ˈ t aɪ n / ⓘ is a river in North East England. Its length (excluding tributaries) is 73 miles (118 km). [ 1 ] It is formed by the North Tyne and the South Tyne, which converge at Warden near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'.
Sold in 1954 to International Navigation Corp., Panama. Converted to a cargo ship and renamed Hudson River. Sold in 1960 to United Navigation Corp., Panama and renamed Formosan Star. Sold in 1961 to Taiwan Maritime Transportation Co., Keelung, Taiwan and renamed Tai Shing. Scrapped at Keelung, [75] or Ghent, Belgium in 1964. [79]
Royal Quays is an area of North Shields, North Tyneside, England, beside the River Tyne.. Built on the site of former docks, and containing the pre-existing North Shields International Ferry Terminal, the area was renamed Royal Quays in 1990 and redeveloped with housing, a shopping centre, Brewers Fayre restaurant, large public parks and a water park known as Wet n Wild.
Work began on the towers the following year: they were built on high and low ground either side of Pow burn, which flows into the Tyne at 'the Narrows' (the narrowest point of the river mouth). A keeper was paid 20 shillings a year to keep a tallow candle alight in each tower every night for a certain number of hours either side of high tide. [6]