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pier, circa 1945.
A
ferry is a form of transport, usually a
boat or
ship, but also other forms, carrying (or
ferrying) passengers and sometimes their vehicles. Ferries are also used to transport freight (in lorries and sometimes unpowered freight containers) and even railroad cars. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services. A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in
Venice, is sometimes called a
water bus or
water taxi.
Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels.
History
Ferries in antiquity
The profession of the ferryman is embodied in Greek mythology in Charon (mythology), the boatman who transported souls across the River Styx to the Greek underworld.
Speculation that a pair of oxen propelled a ship having a water wheel can be found in 4th century AD Roman literature “
Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis”. Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work and such a ferry, modified by using horses, was used in Lake Champlain in 19th century America. See “
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America" (Smithsonian Institution Press; Kevin Crisman, co-authored with Arthur Cohn, Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum).
Notable ferry services
in
Hong Kong.
The busiest seaway in the world, the English Channel, connects
Great Britain and mainland Europe sailing mainly to French ports, such as Calais,
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cherbourg-Octeville,
Caen,
St Malo and Le Havre. Ferries from Great Britain also sail to
Belgium,
Denmark, The Netherlands,
Norway, Spain and Ireland. Some ferries carry mainly tourist traffic, but most also carry freight, and some are exclusively for the use of freight lorries.
Large cruiseferry sail in the
Baltic Sea between Finland,
Sweden,
Germany and
Estonia, and from
Italy to
Albania and Greece. In many ways, these ferries are like cruise ships, but they can also carry hundreds of cars on car decks. In Britain, car-carrying ferries are sometimes referred to as
RORO (roll-on, roll-off) for the ease by which vehicles can board and leave.
In Australia, two
Spirit of Tasmania ferries carry passengers and vehicles 300 kilometres across Bass Strait, which separates
Tasmania from the Australian
mainland. These run overnight but also include day crossings in peak time. Both ferries are based in the northern Tasmanian port city of Devonport, Tasmania and sail to Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).
In
New Zealand, ferry services known as the Interislander and Bluebridge connect
Wellington in the
North Island with Picton in the South Island, across Cook Strait.
Hong Kong has the
Star Ferry and the
First Ferry.
, MumbaiDue to the numbers of large freshwater lakes and length of shoreline in Canada, many provinces and territories have ferry services. BC Ferries carries travellers between Vancouver Island and the
British Columbia mainland on the country's west coast. This ferry service operates to other islands including the
Gulf Islands and the
Queen Charlotte Islands. Canada's east coast has been home to numerous inter and intra provincial ferry and coastal services, including a large network operated by the federal government under
CN Marine and later Marine Atlantic. Private and publicly owned ferry operations in eastern Canada include Marine Atlantic, serving the island of
Newfoundland (island), as well as Bay Ferries,
Northumberland Ferries Limited,
Coopérative de transport maritime et aérien,
Coastal Transport Limited, and
Société des traversiers du Québec to name but a few. Canadian waters in the
Great Lakes once hosted numerous ferry services, however these have been reduced to those offered by Owen Sound Transportation Company Limited and several smaller operations. There are also several commuter passenger ferry services operated in major cities, such as Metro Transit (Halifax) in
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Toronto Island Ferry Services in
Toronto and
SeaBus in Vancouver.
Washington State Ferries operates the most extensive ferry system in the United States, with ten routes on Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca serving terminals in Washington and Vancouver Island. In fiscal year 1999, Washington State Ferries carried 11 million vehicles and 26 million passengers. The Staten Island Ferry in Transportation in New York City, sailing between the boroughs of
Manhattan and Staten Island, is the nation's single busiest ferry route by passenger volume.
The
San Francisco Bay Area has several ferry services, connecting with cities as far as Vallejo, California. The majority of ferry passengers are daily commuters and tourists. The only way to get to Alcatraz is by ferry.
Until the completion of the Mackinac Bridge in the 1950s, ferries were used for vehicle transportation between the
Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, across the
Straits of Mackinac in the United States. Ferry service for bicycles continues across the straits for transport to Mackinac Island, where motorized vehicles are almost completely prohibited.
Types of ferries
Ferry designs depend on the length of the route, the passenger or vehicle capacity required, speed requirements and the water conditions the craft must deal with.
Double-Ended
Double-ended ferries have interchangeable bows and sterns, allowing them to shuttle back and forth between two terminals without having to turn around. Well-known double ended ferry systems include the Staten Island Ferry and the Washington State ferries. Some ferries in Sydney Australia are also Double-ended.
Hydrofoil
Hydrofoils have the advantage of higher cruising speeds, succeeding hovercraft on some English Channel routes where the ferries now compete against the Eurotunnel and Eurostar trains that use the
Channel Tunnel. Passenger-only hydrofoils also proved a practical, fast and relatively economical solution in the Canary Islands but were recently replaced by faster catamaran "high speed" ferries that can carry cars. Their replacement by the larger craft is seen by critics as a retrograde step given that the new vessels use much more fuel and foster the inappropriate use of cars in islands already suffering from the impact of mass tourism.
Hovercraft
, Dover
Hovercraft were developed in the 1960s and 1970s to carry cars. The largest was the massive SRN4 which carried cars in its centre section with ramps at the bow and stern between England and France. The hovercraft was superseded by catamarans which are nearly as fast and are less affected by sea and weather conditions. Only one service now remains, between
Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
Catamaran
) en route to Belfast from StranraerCatamarans are normally associated with high-speed ferry services.
Stena Line operates the largest catamarans in the world, the
High-speed Sea Service class, between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe or Ireland. These
water jet (propulsion)-powered vessels, displacing 19,638 tonnes, are larger than most catamarans and can accommodate 375 passenger cars and 1,500 passengers. The
Luciano Federico L is one of the fastest catamaran ferries in the world and can hold up to 450 passengers and 52 cars. It is largely based on Advanced Mulihull Designs (AMD) type 1130 catamaran and has an overall hull length of 77.32 m, a beam of 19 m (excluding fenders) and a full load draught of 2.15 m.
Ro-ro
Flagship.RORO ferries (RORO) are large, conventional ferries named for the ease by which vehicles can board and leave.
Cruiseferry
, One of P&O Ferries' Flagships operating the Hull-Rotterdam Route
A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a RoRo ferry. In many cases the ships generate a large portion of their revenue from
Cruising (maritime).
Fast RoPax Ferry
Fast RoPax ferries are conventional ferries with a large garage intake and a relatively large passenger capacity, with conventional diesel propulsion and propellers that sail over . Pioneering this class of ferries was Attica Group, when it introduced Superfast I between Greece and Italy in 1995 through its subsidiary company Superfast Ferries.
Cable ferry
Very short distances may be crossed by a cable ferry, where the ferry is propelled along and steered by cables connected to each shore. Sometimes the cable ferry is human powered by someone on the boat. Reaction ferry are cable ferries that use the perpendicular force of the current as a source of power. Examples of a current propelled ferry are the four Rhine ferries in
Basel, Switzerland (see http://www.faehri.ch/). Cable ferries may be used in fast-flowing rivers across short distances. Cable ferries are referred to in Australia and New Zealand as "punts".
Free ferries operate in some parts of the world, such as at Woolwich in
London, England (across the
River Thames); in Amsterdam, Netherlands (across the IJ (bay) waterway); in New York Harbor, connecting
Manhattan to Staten Island; and across many lakes in
British Columbia. A
Reaction ferry that charges a toll operates on the List of crossings of the Rivière des Prairies between Sainte-Dorothée, Quebec and
Île Bizard in
Quebec,
Canada.
Victorian inventions
Along the shore of
Brighton there was a "ferry" on rails: the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway had carriages mounted above rails that were under water at high tide. It ran between Brighton and the nearby coastal village of Rottingdean.
Air ferries
In the 1950s and 1960s, travel on an "
air ferry" was possible—aeroplanes, often ex-military, specially equipped to take a small number of cars in addition to "foot" passengers. These operated various routes including between the United Kingdom and
Continental Europe. Companies operating such services included Corsairfly.
The term is also applied to any "ferrying" by air, and is commonly used when referring to airborne military operations.
Docking
Ferry boats often dock at specialized facilities designed to position the boat for loading and unloading, called a
ferry slip. If the ferry transports road vehicles or railway carriages there will usually be an adjustable ramp called an apron that is part of the slip. In other cases, the apron ramp will be a part of the ferry itself, acting as a wave guard when elevated and lowered to meet a fixed ramp at the terminus — a road segment that extends partially underwater.
First, shortest, largest
ferry departing Dartmouth for Halifax, NS
On
11 October 1811 inventor
John Stevens (inventor)' ship the
Juliana, began operation as the first
steam-powered ferry (service was between New York City, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
The world's shortest regular ferry route runs a scant few feet across the harbor of Edgartown, Massachusetts to the island of Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard Island. Although it operates with no set schedule, it runs every day, hence its name "On-Time"."
The oldest ferry service in continuous operation may be the
Sundbåt ("Sound/Strait Boat") shuttle in
Kristiansund,
Norway. Started in 1876, the small motor ferry crosses the harbour from Kirklandet to Innlandet, then Nordlandet, Gomalandet, and back to Kirklandet, repeating the round trip in half-hour intervals morning to evening on weekdays.
ferry, close-up, departing Dartmouth for Halifax, NS
Another contender for oldest ferry is the Mersey Ferries service from Liverpool to
Birkenhead, England. There is evidence that there has been a ferry service over the river for over 800 years. Liverpool's city charter in 1207 specifies rights of passage across the river payable by a toll.
Two of the world's largest ferry systems are located in the
Strait of Georgia, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and
Puget Sound, in the U.S. state of
Washington.
BC Ferries in British Columbia operates 34 vessels, visiting 47 ports of call, while
Washington State Ferries owns 28 vessels, travelling to 20 ports of call around Puget Sound. The
Sydney Ferries in
Sydney, Australia operates 31 passenger ferries in
Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), carrying 18 million passengers annually. It operates catamarans and other types of ferries on these routes, with the most famous likely being the Circular Quay-Manly route. Between 1938 and 1974 this route operated the South Steyne, billed at the time as the largest and fastest ferry of its type. Sydney Ferries became an independent corporation owned by the government in 2004.
Some of world's busiest ferry routes include the
Star Ferry in
Hong Kong and the
Staten Island Ferry in Transportation in New York City.
Metrolink Queensland operates 21 passenger ferries on behalf of Brisbane City Council, 12 being single-hulled ferries and 9
Citycat (catamarans), along the Brisbane River from the University of Queensland through the city to Brett's Wharf.
Clean energy for ferries
With the
price of oil at such high levels, and with increasing pressure from consumers for measures to tackle global warming, a number of innovations for energy and the environment were put forward at the Interferry conference in
Stockholm. According to the company
Solar Sailor, hybrid marine power and solar wing technology are suitable for use with ferries, private yachts and even tankers. http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-interferry-hears-green-alternatives-/2007/10/05/2993389.htm
See also
References
External links
pier, circa 1945.
A
ferry is a form of transport, usually a
boat or ship, but also other forms, carrying (or
ferrying) passengers and sometimes their
vehicles. Ferries are also used to transport freight (in lorries and sometimes unpowered freight containers) and even
railroad cars. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services. A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in
Venice, is sometimes called a
water bus or water taxi.
Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than
bridges or
tunnels.
History
Ferries in antiquity
The profession of the ferryman is embodied in
Greek mythology in
Charon (mythology), the boatman who transported souls across the River Styx to the
Greek underworld.
Speculation that a pair of oxen propelled a ship having a water wheel can be found in 4th century AD Roman literature “
Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis”. Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work and such a ferry, modified by using horses, was used in Lake Champlain in 19th century America. See “
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America" (Smithsonian Institution Press; Kevin Crisman, co-authored with Arthur Cohn, Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum).
Notable ferry services
in
Hong Kong.
The busiest seaway in the world, the English Channel, connects
Great Britain and mainland
Europe sailing mainly to French ports, such as Calais,
Boulogne-sur-Mer,
Cherbourg-Octeville, Caen,
St Malo and Le Havre. Ferries from
Great Britain also sail to
Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands,
Norway,
Spain and
Ireland. Some ferries carry mainly tourist traffic, but most also carry freight, and some are exclusively for the use of freight lorries.
Large
cruiseferry sail in the Baltic Sea between Finland, Sweden,
Germany and
Estonia, and from
Italy to Albania and
Greece. In many ways, these ferries are like cruise ships, but they can also carry hundreds of cars on car decks. In Britain, car-carrying ferries are sometimes referred to as RORO (roll-on, roll-off) for the ease by which vehicles can board and leave.
In
Australia, two
Spirit of Tasmania ferries carry passengers and vehicles 300 kilometres across Bass Strait, which separates
Tasmania from the Australian mainland. These run overnight but also include day crossings in peak time. Both ferries are based in the northern Tasmanian port city of
Devonport, Tasmania and sail to
Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).
In
New Zealand, ferry services known as the Interislander and Bluebridge connect
Wellington in the North Island with Picton in the
South Island, across Cook Strait.
Hong Kong has the
Star Ferry and the
First Ferry.
,
MumbaiDue to the numbers of large freshwater lakes and length of shoreline in
Canada, many provinces and territories have ferry services.
BC Ferries carries travellers between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland on the country's west coast. This ferry service operates to other islands including the
Gulf Islands and the
Queen Charlotte Islands. Canada's east coast has been home to numerous inter and intra provincial ferry and coastal services, including a large network operated by the federal government under
CN Marine and later Marine Atlantic. Private and publicly owned ferry operations in eastern Canada include Marine Atlantic, serving the island of Newfoundland (island), as well as Bay Ferries,
Northumberland Ferries Limited,
Coopérative de transport maritime et aérien, Coastal Transport Limited, and Société des traversiers du Québec to name but a few. Canadian waters in the
Great Lakes once hosted numerous ferry services, however these have been reduced to those offered by Owen Sound Transportation Company Limited and several smaller operations. There are also several commuter passenger ferry services operated in major cities, such as Metro Transit (Halifax) in
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Toronto Island Ferry Services in Toronto and SeaBus in
Vancouver.
Washington State Ferries operates the most extensive ferry system in the
United States, with ten routes on Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca serving terminals in Washington and Vancouver Island. In fiscal year 1999, Washington State Ferries carried 11 million vehicles and 26 million passengers. The Staten Island Ferry in Transportation in New York City, sailing between the boroughs of
Manhattan and Staten Island, is the nation's single busiest ferry route by passenger volume.
The
San Francisco Bay Area has several ferry services, connecting with cities as far as Vallejo, California. The majority of ferry passengers are daily commuters and tourists. The only way to get to
Alcatraz is by ferry.
Until the completion of the Mackinac Bridge in the 1950s, ferries were used for vehicle transportation between the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, across the Straits of Mackinac in the
United States. Ferry service for bicycles continues across the straits for transport to
Mackinac Island, where motorized vehicles are almost completely prohibited.
Types of ferries
Ferry designs depend on the length of the route, the passenger or vehicle capacity required, speed requirements and the water conditions the craft must deal with.
Double-Ended
Double-ended ferries have interchangeable bows and sterns, allowing them to shuttle back and forth between two terminals without having to turn around. Well-known double ended ferry systems include the Staten Island Ferry and the Washington State ferries. Some ferries in Sydney Australia are also Double-ended.
Hydrofoil
Hydrofoils have the advantage of higher cruising speeds, succeeding
hovercraft on some English Channel routes where the ferries now compete against the Eurotunnel and
Eurostar trains that use the Channel Tunnel. Passenger-only hydrofoils also proved a practical, fast and relatively economical solution in the Canary Islands but were recently replaced by faster catamaran "high speed" ferries that can carry cars. Their replacement by the larger craft is seen by critics as a retrograde step given that the new vessels use much more fuel and foster the inappropriate use of cars in islands already suffering from the impact of mass tourism.
Hovercraft
, Dover
Hovercraft were developed in the 1960s and 1970s to carry cars. The largest was the massive SRN4 which carried cars in its centre section with ramps at the bow and stern between England and France. The hovercraft was superseded by catamarans which are nearly as fast and are less affected by sea and weather conditions. Only one service now remains, between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
Catamaran
) en route to Belfast from Stranraer
Catamarans are normally associated with high-speed ferry services. Stena Line operates the largest catamarans in the world, the
High-speed Sea Service class, between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe or Ireland. These
water jet (propulsion)-powered vessels, displacing 19,638 tonnes, are larger than most catamarans and can accommodate 375 passenger cars and 1,500 passengers. The
Luciano Federico L is one of the fastest catamaran ferries in the world and can hold up to 450 passengers and 52 cars. It is largely based on Advanced Mulihull Designs (AMD) type 1130 catamaran and has an overall hull length of 77.32 m, a beam of 19 m (excluding fenders) and a full load draught of 2.15 m.
Ro-ro
Flagship.RORO ferries (RORO) are large, conventional ferries named for the ease by which vehicles can board and leave.
Cruiseferry
, One of P&O Ferries' Flagships operating the Hull-Rotterdam Route
A
cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a RoRo ferry. In many cases the ships generate a large portion of their revenue from Cruising (maritime).
Fast RoPax Ferry
Fast RoPax ferries are conventional ferries with a large garage intake and a relatively large passenger capacity, with conventional diesel propulsion and propellers that sail over . Pioneering this class of ferries was
Attica Group, when it introduced Superfast I between Greece and Italy in 1995 through its subsidiary company
Superfast Ferries.
Cable ferry
Very short distances may be crossed by a cable ferry, where the ferry is propelled along and steered by cables connected to each shore. Sometimes the cable ferry is human powered by someone on the boat. Reaction ferry are cable ferries that use the perpendicular force of the current as a source of power. Examples of a current propelled ferry are the four Rhine ferries in Basel, Switzerland (see http://www.faehri.ch/). Cable ferries may be used in fast-flowing rivers across short distances. Cable ferries are referred to in Australia and New Zealand as "
punts".
Free ferries operate in some parts of the world, such as at
Woolwich in
London,
England (across the
River Thames); in
Amsterdam, Netherlands (across the
IJ (bay) waterway); in
New York Harbor, connecting
Manhattan to
Staten Island; and across many lakes in British Columbia. A Reaction ferry that charges a toll operates on the
List of crossings of the Rivière des Prairies between
Sainte-Dorothée, Quebec and Île Bizard in Quebec,
Canada.
Victorian inventions
Along the shore of
Brighton there was a "ferry" on rails: the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway had carriages mounted above rails that were under water at high tide. It ran between Brighton and the nearby coastal village of Rottingdean.
Air ferries
In the 1950s and 1960s, travel on an "air ferry" was possible—aeroplanes, often ex-military, specially equipped to take a small number of cars in addition to "foot" passengers. These operated various routes including between the United Kingdom and
Continental Europe. Companies operating such services included Corsairfly.
The term is also applied to any "ferrying" by air, and is commonly used when referring to airborne military operations.
Docking
Ferry boats often dock at specialized facilities designed to position the boat for loading and unloading, called a ferry slip. If the ferry transports road vehicles or railway carriages there will usually be an adjustable ramp called an apron that is part of the slip. In other cases, the apron ramp will be a part of the ferry itself, acting as a wave guard when elevated and lowered to meet a fixed ramp at the terminus — a road segment that extends partially underwater.
First, shortest, largest
ferry departing Dartmouth for Halifax, NS
On 11 October
1811 inventor John Stevens (inventor)' ship the
Juliana, began operation as the first
steam-powered ferry (service was between New York City, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
The world's shortest regular ferry route runs a scant few feet across the harbor of Edgartown, Massachusetts to the island of Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard Island. Although it operates with no set schedule, it runs every day, hence its name "On-Time"."
The oldest ferry service in continuous operation may be the
Sundbåt ("Sound/Strait Boat") shuttle in
Kristiansund, Norway. Started in 1876, the small motor ferry crosses the harbour from Kirklandet to Innlandet, then Nordlandet, Gomalandet, and back to Kirklandet, repeating the round trip in half-hour intervals morning to evening on weekdays.
ferry, close-up, departing Dartmouth for Halifax, NS
Another contender for oldest ferry is the
Mersey Ferries service from
Liverpool to
Birkenhead, England. There is evidence that there has been a ferry service over the river for over 800 years. Liverpool's city charter in 1207 specifies rights of passage across the river payable by a toll.
Two of the world's largest ferry systems are located in the
Strait of Georgia, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and
Puget Sound, in the U.S. state of
Washington. BC Ferries in British Columbia operates 34 vessels, visiting 47 ports of call, while
Washington State Ferries owns 28 vessels, travelling to 20 ports of call around Puget Sound. The
Sydney Ferries in
Sydney, Australia operates 31 passenger ferries in
Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), carrying 18 million passengers annually. It operates catamarans and other types of ferries on these routes, with the most famous likely being the Circular Quay-Manly route. Between 1938 and 1974 this route operated the South Steyne, billed at the time as the largest and fastest ferry of its type. Sydney Ferries became an independent corporation owned by the government in 2004.
Some of world's busiest ferry routes include the Star Ferry in Hong Kong and the
Staten Island Ferry in
Transportation in New York City.
Metrolink Queensland operates 21 passenger ferries on behalf of
Brisbane City Council, 12 being single-hulled ferries and 9 Citycat (catamarans), along the Brisbane River from the University of Queensland through the city to Brett's Wharf.
Clean energy for ferries
With the
price of oil at such high levels, and with increasing pressure from consumers for measures to tackle
global warming, a number of innovations for energy and the environment were put forward at the Interferry conference in
Stockholm. According to the company
Solar Sailor, hybrid marine power and solar wing technology are suitable for use with ferries, private yachts and even tankers. http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-interferry-hears-green-alternatives-/2007/10/05/2993389.htm
See also
References
External links
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Red Funnel - Gateway to the Isle of Wight and Isle of Wight Ferries
Offers a ferry service between the island and Southampton. Includes history, timetables and local attractions.
