In 1995 the company purchased the historic ship M.V Viscount. The Viscount was built in 1908 by Salters Brothers of Oxford for Joseph Mears. At the time of her construction Viscount was one of the largest passenger boats on the middle Thames. In May 1940 Viscount took part in Operation Dynamo, she travelled downriver to Sheerness and on the 30th May 1940 left for Ramsgate. Viscount suffered a breakdown, her freshwater steam engine could not operate in salt water. As a result she was unable to cross the channel but is still credited as a Dunkirk Little Ship.