Offshore Ferry Services of England and Scotland

This is a practical guide to the many offshore ferry services that sail from English and Scottish ports to destinations on continental Europe, Ireland and Britain’s many islands. Details will include the ferries in current service, a description of the routes, car and truck capacity, destinations, on-board facilities, terminals, access and roads, contact details and finally a short history of each ferry line.

The Routes planned for inclusion are:

Penzance – Scilly Isles
Plymouth – Roscoff – Santander
Weymouth – Cherbourg – Channel Islands
Poole – Cherbourg
Lymington – Yarmouth (IoW)
Southampton – Cowes
Portsmouth – Le Havre – Cherbourg – St Malo – Channel Isles – Isle of Wight Wooton Creek & Ryde
Newhaven – Dieppe
Dover – Boulogne – Calais – Dunkirk – Zeebrugge
Ramsgate – Dunkirk
Pembroke – Rosslare
Harwich – Esbjerg – Hamburg – Hook – Zeebrugge
Holyhead – Dun Laoghaire
Liverpool – Belfast – Dublin
Douglas IoM – Heysham – Dublin – Belfast – Ardrossan
Stranraer – Larne
Tynemouth – Esbjerg – Gothenburg – Stavanger – Bergen
Tarbert – Islay – Jura – North Uist
Gourock – Dunoon
Ardrossan – Arran
Oban – Tiree – Coll – Lochhoisdale – Castlebay – Islay – Jura – South Uist
Skye – North Uist – Tarbert
Aberdeen – Shetland Isles
Ullapool – Stornoway