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In pictures: The Queen Mary & Savoy Pier

The Queen Mary, which was built in 1933 and originally carried mail and passengers along the river Clyde in Scotland, has been moored on the Thames since the early 1970s as a stationary pub boat.

The ship gets ready to leave the Embankment and head to France for restoration work.

The pub boat will now be renovated and moored in La Rochelle, France, as a restaurant and fitness centre.

The Port of London Authority Harbour Master overseas the removal of the boat.

The Silver Fleet currently own and operate from the smaller, private Savoy Pier by Cleopatra’s Needle with an up and over ramp spanning Bazalgette’s original wall. The reclamation of the original Savoy Pier for the use of river cruising is a great enhancement for the London riverscape after years of decline and stagnant, static mooring.

The Silver Fleet own and operate from the smaller Savoy Pier by Cleopatra’s Needle (left) with a ramp spanning Bazalgette’s original wall. The Woods family, who run the Silver Fleet river yachts, hope to be using the new pier by 2011.

The Thames Embankment was the brainchild of Sir Joseph Bazalgette whose original design was a streamlined and elegant pier on Victoria Embankment.

The Embankment was the brainchild of Sir Joseph Bazalgette whose original design was a streamlined and elegant pier on Victoria Embankment. The new Savoy pier will take passengers along the Thames in 2011 including guests from the renovated Savoy Hotel.

The Queen Mary passes under Waterloo Bridge on her final voyage.

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