Ben Woollacott (ship)
![]() Ben Woollacott moored a short distance upstream from the Woolwich Ferry termini, October 2019
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Name | Ben Woollacott |
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Builder | Remontowa, Gdańsk |
Launched | 2018 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Passenger ship/Ro-Ro Cargo[1] |
Length | 60m[1] |
Beam | 19m[1] |
Ben Woollacott is the name of a ship built by Remontowa to serve as part of the Woolwich Ferry service. The ship is named after a teenage deckhand who drowned in an accident while untying mooring ropes of the ferry Ernest Bevin in 2011. Ben came from a family of Thames watermen that had worked on the river for six generations.[2][3]
The new ferry arrived in London on 15 November 2018.[4] It has an automatic docking system to hold the ferry in place during loading.[4] The vessel operates alongside sister ship Dame Vera Lynn.
References[]
- ^ a b c d "BEN WOOLLACOTT, Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo - Details and current position - IMO 9822011 MMSI 232017796 - VesselFinder". www.vesselfinder.com. VesselFinder Ltd. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ "Ben Woollacott Ferry death report critical of practices". BBC News. 16 August 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ "Drowned deckhand given ferry name honour". BBC News. BBC. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Brand new Woolwich Ferry Ben Woollacott arrives in London for the first time to undertake docking trials at North Woolwich". Newsflare. Newsflare Limite. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
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- Water transport in London