This is a badly researched and reported article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dzrklrz5ro

Yes, The Royal Iris has been a much loved #Mersey #Ferry but this ferry boat [See edit] has not been afloat for 67 years. The Royal Iris and the Royal Iris of the Mersey are different boats.

Our family photo album has a picture of me with a face like a slapped arse onboard the Royal Iris when I was about 6 or 7. I was in a strop, apparently, and my parents thought they'd capture the moment. 😄

I always felt fond of the Mountwood as that was the name of my house at junior school.

And when they say they're going to welcome the Royal Daffodil into the fleet later this year, there have been previous Royal Daffodils. Daffodil, like Iris, being a previous Wallasey boat made Royal following their participation in the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918 and still marked with a service of remembrance every year in April.

#Wirral

Edit: This boat HAS been afloat 67 yrs. It is not the Royal Iris.

Took a wrong turn on my way to #Huyton today and ended up going over the #Mersey Gateway Bridge. Which was very pretty, but I object on principle to paying money to go near #Widnes...

#Merseyside

R. M. S. "Campania" in the Mersey between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 Views of the British Isles Image shows the R.M.S. Campania, a British ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Line, on the River Mersey. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Ocean liners,England Mersey River

#RMS"Campania #Mersey #British #theRiverMersey #EnglandMerseyRiver #Campania #Liverpool #Britain #photography #historicalPhotos #photochrom

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002708357/

"Low tide II" -

#Photography #mersey #New Brighton #street photography #Street

Low tide II /

On the incoming tide, a ship heads for Liverpool docks.

#Photography #mersey #NewBrighton #streetPhotography