Landing craft in use as River cruise. LCT? LCG? LCS?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

After a search on the interwebs I found "Sir Winston" is indeed a former WW2 boat....built in 1944/45 by Furguson in Glasgow for the Royal Navy. It was converted to a river cruise post war and also stretched later on.

Current description can be found here: https://www.best-biketours.com/en/cr...on?language=en

It is used for tours "by bike and boat", so guests can take their bike on board for a very peaceful discovery of The Netherlands - how much more Dutch can it get?!?

H.

The MS Sir Winston is a mid-sized river cruise ship that can carry a maximum of 68 passengers.

built in 1945
length: 67 m (220 ft), width: 7 m (23 ft), load draft: 1,60 m (5,3 ft)
crew 10 men/women
sails under a Dutch flag
2 decks, the main and the promenade deck

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