The ferry also uses the overhead cable for steering.

The inlet that the ferries use is Hatteras Inlet.

The fast ferries use copious amounts of fuel and their jet streams caused environmental damage.

By 1880, the ferry was still using chains to draw itself over the Itchen.

The ferry uses the force of the river to propel the pontoon along a cable stretched across the river.

The ferry used an innovative sling system to load automobiles.

Although the owning company has retained the words Steam Ferry in its name, all ferries since 1956 have used diesel-electric propulsion.

The village also boasts the lowest mountaineering hut in the whole of Europe which, at 20m above sea level, overlooks where the ferry used to dock.

A ferry used to operate across the Dyfi river to Ynyslas.

"The ferry used to be 5 cents each way," she said as it passed by the Statue of Liberty.