Boats

Steam riverboats travel up and down the Thames in Syndicate. You cannot steer them; instead they work as moving platforms you run and jump across to cross the river without swimming.

Class: Boat

Appears in

Operation: Dynamite BoatOperation: Dynamite Boat is the first Queen Victoria memory: a ship of Templars is bringing dynamite from Boston up the Thames, and you help Alfred Fleming's secret service ambush it. Afterwards you catch the faction's fleeing leader alive.

Found in

The ThamesThe Thames is the seventh borough of Syndicate's London: the river itself, its boats and its bridges. The Templar Edith Swinebourne controls it in 1868, and you win it the same way as the land boroughs, but there are no strongholds or factories to clear.

Good to know

Riverboats carry traffic along the Thames throughout the game.
Boats are for freerunning, not driving.
Ubisoft Chengdu built the game's wide range of boats.
The Thames is its own borough, run by the Templar Edith Swinebourne in 1868.

Getting across

Industry has left the Thames badly polluted, so hopping from deck to deck is the better way over. Boats are platforms only: you climb and run across them, you never take the helm.

Missions on the water

Some memories take place on boats, such as Operation: Dynamite Boat for Queen Victoria, and the Thames borough's Templar hunts include Captain Hargrave, who patrolled the river.