Cable ferry
A cable ferry (known as chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in some cases propelled) across a river by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries used either rope or steel chains, with the latter resulting in the name "chain ferry". Both of these were replaced by wire cable in the 19th century.
Gallery
Chain-pulling engine of a small ferry on Berounka river near Prague, Czech Republic
Malgas Ferry on the Breede River, Western Cape, South Africa
Cable Ferry Media
Cable ferry in Vaxholm, Sweden
Winding mechanism on the Sackville Ferry in New South Wales, Australia
Simple cable ferry, Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1939
Medsave cable ferry across the Sava river in Croatia with some passengers, April 2016.
Nam Sang Wai Ferry, Hong Kong
Cable ferry crossing the river Tisza between Tiszatardos and Tiszalök, Hungary.
Chain ferry being handcranked in Mozambique
Other websites
- Twyford chain ferry Archived 2006-05-29 at the Wayback Machine on the River Trent,UK, 1899
- Cable ferries operating in New Brunswick, Canada Archived 2008-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
