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The Mersey Ferry is a ferry service operating on the River Mersey in northwest England, between Liverpool to the east and Birkenhead and Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula to the west. Ferries have been used on this route since at least the 12th century and continue to be popular for both local people and visitors.
MV Royal Daffodil is a former Mersey ferry, built in 1962 to provide passenger ferry service across the River Mersey in England.Until a major refit in 1998 /1999, she was named MV Overchurch, she began service for Birkenhead Corporation Ferries in 1962 and was in regular service on the river until her withdrawal in December 2012.
Owned by Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, the terminal replaced facilities at Brocklebank and Canada docks at Liverpool & reduces voyage times between Liverpool and Ireland by 90 minutes. [ 4 ] Twelve Quays has a floating landing stage in the river that can take two ro-ro ferries at the same time.
The ferry has a large square and box like wheelhouse which does not follow the contours of the ship. In December 2007, the Snowdrop featured in the Liverpool Nativity, [3] which was broadcast live on BBC Three and repeated on BBC One. Gerry Marsden also made a cameo appearance as the ferry's captain. The ferry is the regular boat used on the ...
Ben-my-Chree is launched at Birkenhead, Friday, 10 December 1965. Ben-my-Chree (No.186355) was constructed by Cammell Laird at a cost of £1,400,000 (equivalent to £34,238,901 in 2023). [1] She was the second of four car ferries ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and was virtually identical to her sister Manx Maid, built four ...
MV Royal Iris of the Mersey in February 2020. Royal Iris of the Mersey is a regular vessel used on both cross-river ferry services and also Manchester ship canal cruises. The ferry has a top speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph).
The opening of the Birkenhead to Liverpool Queensway road tunnel on 18 July 1934 hastened the demise of Woodside's luggage boats, the service ending on 21 July 1941. [ 2 ] On 30 August 1860, Britain's first street tramway was established, running from Woodside to Birkenhead Park .
The Aeron Express was the name used for a hand-powered aerial cable ferry that was built to ferry people across the harbour in the West Wales coastal town of Aberaeron.The ferry was first built in 1880 to ferry labourers from the Liverpool quay on Quay Parade, to the Birkenhead quay on Lon Yr Hafen, in the absence of a bridge across the River Aeron.