Author: Nick Robins
Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
This exciting story encompasses triumph and disaster as well as intrigue and financial trickery. The key players included the General Steam Navigation Company and the New Medway Steam Packet Company, but many others came and went over the decades.
Nick Robins uses period photographs, handbills and paintings to provide a definitive history of the well-loved vessels that came out in the summer and flitted about, leading to their nickname of 'Thames butterfly boats'.