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Wightlink: Catamaran 22 minutes Portsmouth to Fishbourne Wightlink: Car Ferry 45 minutes Southampton to West Cowes Red Funnel: Catamaran 25 minutes Southampton to East Cowes Red Funnel: Car Ferry 1 hour Lymington to Yarmouth Wightlink: Car Ferry 40 minutes
Eventually, Hovertravel took over running of the route on behalf of Seaspeed; however, in 1980, the decision was taken to discontinue the Cowes-Southampton service due to rising costs and increased competition from Red Funnel's hydrofoils, instead concentrating its resources on the Ryde-Southsea service, which was viewed as being more viable. [8]
Red Funnel's main competitor is Wightlink whose services operate from Portsmouth to Fishbourne and Ryde, and from Lymington to Yarmouth. The other major Solent ferry company, Hovertravel, operates between Southsea and Ryde. Both provide a frequent service to the Isle of Wight, but neither normally serve Southampton, Cowes or East Cowes.
MV Red Falcon is a vehicle and passenger ferry operated by Red Funnel from Southampton to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. It was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow . She entered service in 1994, being bought new by Red Funnel along with sister ship Red Osprey and as such, has operated the same regular route throughout her life.
Operation of the ferries was eventually moved under a separate subsidiary of the British Railways Board called Sealink. In 1984 Sealink was sold to Sea Containers. [3] [4] When Stena Line bought Sealink in 1990, the Isle of Wight ferries remained with Sea Containers, as Wightlink. [2] In June 1995 Wightlink was the subject of a management ...
A late evening train additionally calls at stations to St John's Road. Weekend services are hourly all day. Wightlink passenger ferry services run every hour for most of the day, but are reduced to 2 hourly intervals in the late morning / early afternoons, with the last sailing from Ryde Pier Head at 20:52 daily.
By mid-1967, Seaspeed's Solent services had carried 67,600 passengers, the Southampton-Cowes route proved to be the most trafficked of the three services. [23] The Southampton terminal was on the west side of the river Itchen just upstream of the floating bridge terminal. A bus link connected the service to Southampton Central station.
View of the Solent from Gurnard, near Cowes, Isle of Wight The Solent from Wootton, Isle of Wight, showing Wightlink Fishbourne–Portsmouth ferries crossing.. The Solent (/ ˈ s oʊ l ən t / SOH-lənt) is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth lie inland of its shores.