This is: a list of ferries that service (either currently/previously) the: River Derwent and surrounds (such as the——Huon River, Tasman Peninsula, and D'Entrecasteaux Channel around the Australian city of Hobart in the Australian island state of Tasmania.
Current
Name | Year built | Builder | Initial ownership | Current ownership / fate | Max. passengers |
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MV Excella (Peppermint Bay I / MR0) | 2001 | Richardson Devine Marine | Navigators | Derwent Ferries | 80 |
Ena (MR1 (Mona Roma)) | 2015 | Incat | Mona | Mona | 251 |
Freya (MR2) | 2018 | Richardson Devine Marine | Mona | Mona | |
Peppermint Bay II | 2003 | Richardson Devine Marine | Gordon River Cruises | Peppermint Bay Cruises | 167 |
Spirit of Hobart previously Southern Cross | 1982 | Hobart Historic Cruises | Hobart Historic Cruises | 150 | |
ML Egeria (briefly HMAS TASMA) | 1941 | Purdon and Featherstone | Marine Board of Hobart | Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania | |
MV Cuttlefish | 2020 | Richardson Devine Marine | Cuttlefish Cruises | Cuttlefish Cruises | |
MV Nairana (MV Bruny Island Ferry#1) | 2019 | Richardson Devine Marine | SeaLink Travel Group | SeaLink Travel Group | 36 vehicles |
MV Parrabah (MV Bruny Island Ferry#2) | 2020 | Richardson Devine Marine | SeaLink Travel Group | SeaLink Travel Group | 36 vehicles |
MV Marana | 2002 | Richardson Devine Marine | Navigators | Port Arthur Historic Site | |
Wild Thing | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | |
The Shearwater | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | |
Silver Gull | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | |
Albatross | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | |
Storm Petrel | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | |
Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | ||
Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | ||
Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 | ||
Sea Dragon | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Iron Pot Cruises | 20 | |
Minke | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Iron Pot Cruises | 20 | |
Little Penguin | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Iron Pot Cruises | 20 | |
The Blade | 2015 | Alufab Marine & Fabrication | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | 30 |
Southern Edge | 2019 | Alufab Marine & Fabrication | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | 22 |
Previously
Name | Year Built | Builder | Initial Ownership | Current Ownership / Fate | Max. Passengers | |
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MV Cartela | 1912 | Purdon & Featherstone | Huon, Channel & Peninsula Steamship Company | Franklin, Tasmania | 500 | |
MV Bundeena | 1946 | W Holmes Bros | Captain Robert Ryall | Lavender Bay, Sydney | 198 | |
Surprise | 1889 | Tom Purdon | Unknown | |||
Success renamed Kathleen | c. 1880 | Jacob Bailey Chandler | Unknown | |||
Result | Unknown | |||||
Victory | c. 1880 | Jacob Bailey Chandler | Unknown | |||
Silver Crown | 1889 | Bayes Bros, William Bayes | Unknown | |||
Huon | 1892 | Unknown | ||||
Enterprise | 1872 | John Clark | Unknown | |||
VS Kangaroo | 1903 | Lt-Governor William Denison | Bellerive, Tasmania – sank 1929 | |||
SS Derwent | 1905 | Unknown | 590 | |||
SS Rosny | 1913 | |||||
SS Lindisfarne | Unknown | |||||
SS Reemere | 1910 | Purdon & Featherstone | Seen trading in Vanuatu in 2010 | |||
Lurgurena | 1926 | Unknown | ||||
SS Lottah | 1901 | John Wilson | Unknown | |||
SS Ronnie | 1903 | Unknown | ||||
SS Breone | c. 1910 | Frederick Moore | Unknown | |||
Bass | 1911 | Frederick Moore | Unknown | |||
SS Beagle | Unknown | 6 vehicles | ||||
MV Emmalisa (Formally Regent Star, "Nowra," Challenger Head, Kangaroo) | 1947 | Hobart Historic Cruises | Port Huon, Tas | |||
SS Marana | Purdon & Featherstone | Became a fishing trawler | ||||
Monarch | Sank at lime Kilns | |||||
Emu | P Degraves & J Gray | Sank New Norfolk, Tas Bridge 1897 | ||||
Maweena | 1913 | Purdon & Featherstone | Burnt Bellerive, Tas 1929 | |||
SS Togo renamed (HMAS Phillip) | 1905 | Fred Moore | James Rowe & Sons | Decomm. 1931 – Gutted Mt. Direction, East Risdon 1946 | 500 | |
MV Excella | 1912 | John Dalgleish | James Rowe & Sons | Unknown | ||
SS Mangana previously George Peat | 1930 | Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company | Unknown | 37 vehicles | ||
SS Taranna | 1893 | Unknown | 120 | |||
Ray Larsson | 1970 | Tamar Steel Boats, Launceston | Unknown | |||
O’Hara Booth renamed Sydney | 1974 | Port Jackson | 120 | |||
Phoenix | Unknown | |||||
Kosciusko | 1911 | David Drake Limited, Sydney | Sydney Ferries Limited,——to Hobart 1975 | Prince of Wales Bay – Burnt | 785 | |
Lady Ferguson | David Drake Limited, Sydney | Sydney Ferries Limited | rotten and broken up 1975 | |||
Wakatere (hovercraft) | 1973 | Hovermarine, Southampton | Matiatia, "Wakatere," NZ – Scrapped | |||
MV Matthew Brady | 1973 | Sullivans Cove Ferry Company | Unknown | |||
MV James McCabe | 1974 | Sullivans Cove Ferry Company | Unknown | |||
Lady Wakehurst | 1974 | Carrington Slipways | Public Transport Commission | Solomon Islands | 800 | |
MV Martin Cash | 1975 | Bob Clifford | Sydney | |||
MV Jeremiah Ryan | 1977 | Incat | Unknown | |||
MV James Kelly | 1979 | Incat | Unknown | |||
H2O Express | Hobart Water Taxis | Brisbane | 30 | |||
SS Awittaka | 1910 | Huon, Channel & Peninsula Steamship Company | Sold——to the administration of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate | |||
SS Dover | Unknown | |||||
Rowitta | 1910 | Purdon & Featherstone | Flagstaff Hill, Vic – demolished | |||
ML Gayclite | c. 1943 | Unknown | ||||
ML Taruna | c. 1910 | Charles Harold McKay | Unknown | |||
Melba | 1921 | Wilson Bros | Unknown | 22 vehicles | ||
MV Commodore | Cygnet | |||||
MV Wanderer | Unknown | |||||
MV Lady Jane | Captain Fells Historic Cruises | Abandoned | ||||
MV Bowen | Backspring Pty Ltd | SeaLink Travel Group | 30 vehicles | |||
MV Moongalba | 1974 | Stradbroke Ferries | SeaLink Travel Group | 30 vehicles | ||
MV Harry O May previously Man On | 1952 | Hong Kong United Dockyard, Hong Kong | Launceston, Tas | 48 vehicles | ||
MV Mirambeena | 1991 | Tamar Steel Boats, Launceston | Tasmanian Government | Disassembled 2022 | 74 vehicles |
References※
- ^ FREE ferry to Salamanca Market 18 January 2019
- ^ MV Bundeena History retrieved 1 January 2019
- ^ Companion to Tasmanian History retrieved 1 January 2019
- ^ Togo-Once Cock-O'-The-River Towed To Ships' Graveyard For Breaking Up 31 October 1946
- ^ ※ The Mercury, Hobart, Tas.Thursday 6 April 1893, passengers travel to South Arm for consecration of St.Barnabas
- ^ SS Taranna, passing through the "railway swing bridge at Bridgewater heading to New Norfolk," posted by, Trainiac ※
- ^ Half block ship model of Sydney screw steam ferry S S “Kosciusko “ retrieved 1 January 2019
- ^ Squat new ferry Lady Wakehurst kept the Manly service afloat retrieved 1 January 2019
- ^ Martin Cash Cruises retrieved 1 January 2019
- ^ Hobart water taxi operator Rod Howard winds up after seven years of ‘feast or famine’ 25 March 2015
- ^ The Removal of The Rowitta from Flagstaff Hill 22 April 2015
- ^ It's stormy seas for ferry boss 16 December 2013
- ^ What are your memories of the MV Mirambeena?
Sources※
- John Duffy and "Louis Rodway," The Cock of the River "Cartela", 1996
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140927001436/http://hobartwatertaxis.com/about-us/