Ferries
| Ferry | Builder | Service | Engines | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Hocking of Stonehouse | 1836 – 1854 | Two single-cylinder beam engines | Wooden-hulled craft built with a central cabin containing the boiler and engines flanked by twin roadways. The latter had cross-battens to give horses a better footing. |
| 2 | Joseph Hodgkinson of Southampton | 1854 – 1896 | 2-cylinder grasshopper engine | Iron hulled craft with a central roadway with two side sponsons. The boiler was situated in one sponson and the engine in the other. |
| 3 | Joseph Hodgkinson of Southampton | 1862 - 1900 | 2-cylinder grasshopper engine | On withdrawal the hull, along with that of No 2, was used as the basis for a houseboat on the River Hamble |
| Woolston | Day, Summers & Co of Northam | 1878 - 1883 | A steam launch designed for pedestrian traffic. She proved to be unsuitable in practice owing to a number of accidents to passengers while boarding and disembarking. | |
| 5 | Day, Summers & Co of Northam | 1879 - 1901 | A pedestrian only ferry to cope with shipyard workers commuting to Thorneycroft's Woolston yard. | |
| 6 | Day, Summers & Co of Northam | 1881 - 1901 | Sister to No 5 | |
| 7 | Day, Summers & Co of Northam | 1892 – 1928 | Triple expansion steam engine | Slightly smaller than the earlier carriage bridges. This particular ferry sank on 8 March 1928, after a collision with the tug Fawley, but was salvaged. It wasn't used again but ended its days as a pontoon at the Supermarine works. |
| 8 | Day, Summers & Co of Northam | 1896 - 1961 | 1 steam powered 2 cylinder compound Overhead grasshopper beam engine | Declared unsafe for further service she was sold to Kemp's yard at Bitterne Manor to act as a fuelling pontoon for the marina there. The engines were removed and preserved at Wendron Forge in Cornwall. |
| 9 | Mordey Carney & Co of Woolston | 1900 - 1964 | 1 steam powered 2 cylinder compound centre-pivot beam engine | Sold to Kemps yard on withdrawal, it was due to be transferred to the Medway in 1974 but is believed to have sunk under tow off Selsey |
| 10 | Day, Summers & Co of Northam | 1928 - 1967 | 1 steam powered 2 cylinder compound centre-pivot beam engine | Built in a hurry to replace No 7, she was completed in under six months. The last steam-powered ferry, she also ended up at Kemp's yard. |
| 11 | J I Thorneycroft of Woolston | 1962 – 1977 | 2 159 hp Leyland Atalanta bus engines | |
| 12 | J I Thorneycroft of Woolston | 1964 - 1977 | 2 159 hp Leyland Atalanta bus engines | |
| 14 | Vosper Thorneycroft at Portsmouth | 1967 - 1977 | 2 159 hp Leyland Atalanta bus engines |
One of the diesel ferries was moored at the Woolston slipway as a nightclub, "Floaters" for some years after withdrawal.
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