Make-over Mersey Ferry Snowdrop.

[Jim Brady]

If any of you are around the Pier Head this year you may see the ferry Snowdrop in it's new colours.
Regards.
Jim.B.
Cammell Laird 'dazzles' a Mersey Ferry - Liverpool Echo

[John Albert Evans]

She is a little beauty Jim.

John.

[John Albert Evans]

Photo of her grandmother, no prize for guessing she is the TSMV Royal Iris, launched on the 5th. December 1951.ROYAL_IRIS_2.jpg

John

[Jim Brady]

John I don't think that would be the grandmother I think maybe it would be the old Iris which was given the title Royal for services rendered during WW1.
Regards.
Jim.B.
The Royal Iris and Daffodil Mersey Ferrys

[Chris Allman]

Well, I cant make up my mind at all. The Edmund Gardner to my mind looks blo*dy awful and I cant help feeling that the poor old Snowdrop will look the same. The only hope is that it will bring in the punters and put some much needed cash into the Mersey Ferries. There is a rumor going around that the Royal Daffodil might be sold, do hope that this is not true.

[happy daze john in oz]

She looks very good. Could just imagine her as a Sydney ferry, with a name like that and those colours she would be a Gay heaven.

[Jim Brady]

Scouser's and ex-pat scousers will remember the Royal Iris for the river cruises that we did aboard her in the 50's.Many works social clubs and various other people would organise the cruiser's and we all took the opportunity of obtaining a ticket.The cruise went from the Pier Head out to the bar and back just in time to catch the last bus or the overhead railway home.A band or two to dance to, great memories and what a shame to see the state that she is in now.
Regards.
Jim.B.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood guitarist snaps decaying Mersey Ferry Royal Iris - Liverpool Echo