Tug Tender Calshot Trust

Tug Tender Calshot Trust Established in 1996 the organisation is a Registered Charity in England & Wales. This will allow us to provide educational opportunities for the public.

Our primary aim is the restoration and preservation of SS Calshot in operational condition. Due to commercial development opportunities, the historic tender Calshot has lost a permanent berth at Southampton Docks. The Trust is now unable to apply for support without the offer of a new long-term home for the vessel. New Directors have joined the Board in 2020 and established a viable business plan

that outlines a sustainable future for the ship. They are actively working towards finding a new location for Calshot to take up permanent residence.

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Steaming through Time: Her Story

The White Star liner Olympic, sister ship of the ill-fated Titanic. Cunard’s famous flagship RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth. The Mauritania, SS United States, Bremen, France, the SS Nieuw Amsterdam. SS Statendam or the French Line’s flagship Normandie; each are just a few of the liners with which the Calshot regularly served and assisted in both peacetime and war.

This is a class of vessel, uniquely associated with the great ocean liners of the past.

She’s steamed into the heart of D-Day and facilitated untold servicemen during Europe’s eleventh hour. Her career has seen her transport the masses but also some familiar faces too, from Churchill to Bob Hope and Judy Garland. Britain’s heritage and Calshot are one and the same.

Yesterday, she was a gateway to peace and leisure, but ninety years after her construction the Calshot now rests in Southampton Docks with an uncertain future.