Passenger wherry

• The passenger wherry on the Thames
• had long overhanging bows so passengers
• could easily step ashore without getting wet.
• The term dates before 1535.
• Wherries performed the same service
• on the River Cam and the River Tyne.
• Wherries were long boats
• and could carry up to five passengers
• plus one or two wherry men at the oars.