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The MV Long Island, the newest member of the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry's fleet, was built in 2024 by Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City, Florida, and is expected to enter service in Fall 2024. She is 302 feet long and 52 feet wide and has capacity for 124 automobiles. Externally, she is identical to the P.T. Barnum and Grand Republic.
SS Martha's Vineyard was a ferry that operated in New England for much of the 20th century. She was constructed by Bath Iron Works for the New England Steamship Company (since consolidated into the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority) as the Islander. [1] She was launched on July 23, 1923, and began service to ...
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, doing business as The Steamship Authority (SSA), is the statutory regulatory body for all ferry operations between mainland Massachusetts and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well an operator of ferry services between the mainland and the islands.
Capacity. 1,200 people, 76 cars [4] The MV Island Home is a ferry built by VT Halter Marine in 2005 for the Steamship Authority. She replaced the MV Islander on the Authority's route between Woods Hole and Vineyard Haven. [4] She has been serving the Woods Hole–Martha's Vineyard route since her maiden voyage on March 5, 2007. [3][2]
Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, [1] is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod. It is known for being a popular, affluent summer colony, and includes the smaller peninsula Chappaquiddick Island. It is the 58th largest island in the U.S., with a land area of about 96 square miles (250 km 2 ...
Two early morning Sunday runs on the M/V Island Home, which can carry 1,210 persons and up to 76 vehicles, were cancelled. Two later runs at 5 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. on the M/V Martha's Vineyard were ...
Hy-Line Cruises began operations in 1962 as Hyannis Harbor Tours run by Richard Scudder and his brother Robert. Originally, the company focused on sightseeing harbor tours, which it still does today. The company added deep-sea fishing charters in 1966 and started running seasonal passenger-ferry services in 1970, first to Martha's Vineyard and ...
14 knots (16 mph) Sankaty (a.k.a. HMCS Sankaty, a.k.a. Charles A. Dunning) was a propeller -driven steamer that served as a ferry to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; in Rockland, Maine; Stamford, Connecticut and Oyster Bay, Long Island in the United States from 1911 to 1940.