White Marlin previously Fervant
Annual Commemorative Cruise incorporating the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant - 2012
The 2012 Commemorative Cruise will be held in London, in West India Dock to coincide with the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The Pageant to be held at high water on the afternoon of Sunday 3 June 2012 and the event will see up to a thousand boats muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The Pageant celebrates Her Majesty's sixty years of service by magnificently bringing the Thames to life.
Little Ships will assemble in Barnes reach prior to the event.
White Marlin previously Fervant
The Armenian sugar broker who ordered White Marlin from Thornycrofts never even took delivery of her. As she was completed at Hampton on Thames in 1939, right on the eve of World War II, she was handed over instead to the Ministry of War Tran-sport at Dover. The Royal Navy called her HMS Fervant and assigned her as the communications boat for the Officer Commanding convoys in the area.
