The opening reference popped up during a google search on Thailand paddle steamer.

www.openwriting.com/archives/2008/03/penny_paddle_st_1.php

The author is writing of her childhood memories.  In this episode, she describes a day cruise from London to Clacton in summer 1932, when she was 9.
In a footnote, she refers the the bombing and sinking of the vessel at Dunkirk in 1940.

Work on Thailand has stopped.  I have switched to PS Crested Eagle.

http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.lee/crestedimg.htm: an excellent history and photo.  'Greyhound of the River', folding funnel to get under a low bridge.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tramways/CrestedEagle.htm: a little more history.

http://website.lineone.net/~tom_lee/crestedcapt.htm: crew and passenger photos.

www.thesoutheastecho.co.uk/Crested_Eagle.htm: seems to be the same as the freespace page.

www.simplonpc.co.uk/GSN-PS1.html#anchor271353: nine postcards of Crested Eagle.

http://dkepaves.free.fr/html/crested_eagle.htm: a lengthy page, focussing mainly on the wartime use, and with photos of the hulk c2002.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor