Step onboard for a final look around the TSMV Southsea while she was laid up at Northman Bridge Southampton on the 3rd October 2003.
Built for the Southern Railway by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton in 1948 for the Portsmouth to Ryde passenger ferry route, she was in regular service until 1988.
She had two sister vessels-TSMV Brading (1948) and later TSMV Shanklin (1951).
Shanklin was later renamed TSMV Prince Ivanhoe which had a short career as a consort to the PS Waverley and sadly foundered after hitting an uncharted wreck in Port Eynon Bay South Wales in 1981.
During her active years the Southsea left the South Coast area only once when the PS Waverley was withdrawn from service in August 1987 due to boiler trouble.
As a result the Southsea was chartered by Waverley Excursions Limited to cover the September timetable of Clyde sailings. This was the first and last time she returned back to the area where she was built.
Since her withdrawal from active service in 1988 she has had several owners and has been laid up in Falmouth, Newhaven, Bristol, Portsmouth, and finally Southampton.
Several unsuccessful preservation attempts had been made since 1988 but all sadly failed to give the ship further service under preservation.
Southsea was towed from Southampton to Esbjerg in Denmark on the 13th March 2005 where she was broken up at the Smedegaarden ship breaking yard in the following few months.
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