List of Hobart ferries

This is a list of ferries that service (either currently or 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
MV Excella (Peppermint Bay I / MR0) 2001 Richardson Devine Marine Navigators Derwent Ferries 80[1]
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
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[2] 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[3]
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[4] 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 [5][6]
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[7] 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[8] 800
MV Martin Cash 1975 Bob Clifford Sydney[9]
MV Jeremiah Ryan 1977 Incat Unknown
MV James Kelly 1979 Incat Unknown
H2O Express Hobart Water Taxis Brisbane[10] 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[11]
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[12]
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[13] 74 vehicles
  1. ^ FREE ferry to Salamanca Market 18 January 2019
  2. ^ MV Bundeena History retrieved 1 January 2019
  3. ^ Companion to Tasmanian History retrieved 1 January 2019
  4. ^ Togo-Once Cock-O'-The-River Towed To Ships' Graveyard For Breaking Up 31 October 1946
  5. ^ [1] The Mercury, Hobart, Tas.Thursday 6 April 1893, passengers travel to South Arm for consecration of St.Barnabas
  6. ^ SS Taranna, passing through the railway swing bridge at Bridgewater heading to New Norfolk, posted by Trainiac [2]
  7. ^ Half block ship model of Sydney screw steam ferry S S “Kosciusko “ retrieved 1 January 2019
  8. ^ Squat new ferry Lady Wakehurst kept the Manly service afloat retrieved 1 January 2019
  9. ^ Martin Cash Cruises retrieved 1 January 2019
  10. ^ Hobart water taxi operator Rod Howard winds up after seven years of ‘feast or famine’ 25 March 2015
  11. ^ The Removal of The Rowitta from Flagstaff Hill 22 April 2015
  12. ^ It's stormy seas for ferry boss 16 December 2013
  13. ^ What are your memories of the MV Mirambeena?