It may sound American, but this was an English ship, which sailed daily except Fridays providing "the luxury service by water between London and Clacton. Excellent breakfasts, lunches and teas are served on board... she was the first London pleasure steamer to have the Dining Saloon on the upper deck, a feature that has revolutionised the popularity of the Thames passenger services".
Nowadays Clacton is known as Clacton-on-Sea, a seaside resort that attracted many tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and 1970s, but which like many other British sea-side resorts went into decline as a holiday destination since holidays abroad became more affordable.
The ship was built by Samuel White and Son, "the world famous Yacht and Naval builders of Cowes" in 1925 and was lost in the Dunkirk evacuation of June 1940 (see earlier post).
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