en:MV Lady Wakefield
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=MV Lady Wakefield at Glenridding Pier on Ullswater (geograph 4593757).jpg |Ship caption= |Ship image size=300px }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} |Ship name=*Berry Castle
|Ship namesake=Berry Pomeroy Castle |Ship owner=*River Dart Steamboat Co Ltd (1949)
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MV Lady Wakefield is a twin screw passenger vessel, operating between Glenridding, Howtown and Pooley Bridge on Ullswater in the Lake District for Ullswater Navigation and Transit Co, marketed as Ullswater 'Steamers'.{{cite web |last=Boyle |first=I |url=http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/PlymouthBoatCruises.html |title=Plymouth Boat Cruises |work=www.simplonpc.co.uk |access-date=15 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016015727/http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/PlymouthBoatCruises.html |archive-date=16 October 2009 |url-status=live}}
History
The ship was built in 1949 by Philip & Son of Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom as the MV Berry Castle for the River Dart Steamboat Co Ltd (RDSC). She was named after Berry Pomeroy Castle, which is located a few miles from the River Dart and was the third vessel in the fleet to bear the name. MV Berry Castle was used on the company's River Dart services from Dartmouth and Totnes in South Devon. In 1972 she was sold to Discover Galapagos Ltd, to be fitted out for diving in Honduras. This project failed and she was operated on the Medway by Discover Galapagos as the MV Golden Cormorant. In 1976 she returned to the Dart, owned by the RDSC's successor: Dart Pleasure Craft Ltd, and was renamed MV Totnes Castle.Clammer, R & Kittridge, A. Passenger Steamers of the River Dart & Kingsbridge Estuary, The Paddle Steamer Preservation Society &Twelveheads Press, 1987
In 1985 Dart Pleasure Craft, which had previously bought the Millbrook Steamboat & Trading Co Ltd of Plymouth, withdrew its services from the Plymouth area, and in the process, MV Totnes Castle was sold to Plymouth Boat Cruises. She operated cruises from Plymouth. During her time in Plymouth she gained additional enclosed accommodation in the form of a large deckhouse on the former open deck behind her wheelhouse. In 2006 she was sold to Ullswater Navigation and Transit Company, and moved to Ullswater, involving an overland journey to this land-locked lake. She was renamed MV Lady Wakefield.
On 6 December 2015 Lady Wakefield suffered damage while moored at Pooley Bridge pier during Storm Desmond. She started to take on water, and was rescued by being run aground the following day. On 12 May 2016, MV Lady Wakefield was rolled back into the water after being beached for five months, and docked for repair.{{cite news |date=10 December 2015 |title=Village floods for second time in five days |newspaper=The Westmorland Gazette |url= http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14135066.Village_floods_for_second_time_in_five_days/ |access-date=10 December 2015 }}{{cite news | url = http://www.itv.com/news/border/2016-01-14/business-re-opens-as-usual-for-the-ullswater-steamers/ | work = ITV News | title = Business re-opens as usual for the Ullswater Steamers | date = 14 January 2016 | access-date = 15 June 2016}}{{cite web | url = http://cruisingmonthly.co.uk/lady-wakefield-makes-it-back-into-the-water/ | title = Lady Wakefield makes it back into the water | work = Cruising Monthly | date = 20 May 2016 | access-date = 16 June 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160616163404/http://cruisingmonthly.co.uk/lady-wakefield-makes-it-back-into-the-water/ | archive-date = 16 June 2016 | url-status = live}}
Gallery
File:Ullswater Motor Launch Undergoing Major Refit - geograph.org.uk - 73126.jpg|Lady Wakefield before entering Ullswater service
File:Lady Wakefield Approaching Howtown (7530290420).jpg|Lady Wakefield approaching Howtown
File:M.V. Lady Wakefield, high and dry (geograph 4902850).jpg|Lady Wakefield beached by Storm Desmond
References
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