# List of Hobart ferries

This is a list of ferries that service (either currently or previously) the River Derwent and surrounds (such as the Huon River, Tasman Peninsula, and D'Entrecasteaux Channel around the Australian city of Hobart in the Australian island state of Tasmania.
Current
| Name | Year built | Builder | Initial ownership | Current ownership / fate | Max. passengers |
| MV Excella (Peppermint Bay I / MR0) | 2001 | Richardson Devine Marine | Navigators | Derwent Ferries | 80 |
| Ena (MR1 (Mona Roma)) | 2015 | Incat | Mona | Mona | 251 |
| Freya (MR2) | 2018 | Richardson Devine Marine | Mona | Mona | |
| Peppermint Bay II | 2003 | Richardson Devine Marine | Gordon River Cruises | Peppermint Bay Cruises | 167 |
| Spirit of Hobart previously Southern Cross | 1982 | | Hobart Historic Cruises | Hobart Historic Cruises | 150 |
| ML Egeria (briefly HMAS TASMA) | 1941 | Purdon and Featherstone | Marine Board of Hobart | Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania | |
| MV Cuttlefish | 2020 | Richardson Devine Marine | Cuttlefish Cruises | Cuttlefish Cruises | |
| MV Nairana (MV Bruny Island Ferry#1) | 2019 | Richardson Devine Marine | SeaLink Travel Group | SeaLink Travel Group | 36 vehicles |
| MV Parrabah (MV Bruny Island Ferry#2) | 2020 | Richardson Devine Marine | SeaLink Travel Group | SeaLink Travel Group | 36 vehicles |
| MV Marana | 2002 | Richardson Devine Marine | Navigators | Port Arthur Historic Site | |
| Wild Thing | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| The Shearwater | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| Silver Gull | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| Albatross | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| Storm Petrel | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Bruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises | 43 |
| Sea Dragon | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Iron Pot Cruises | 20 |
| Minke | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Iron Pot Cruises | 20 |
| Little Penguin | | Kirby Marine | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Iron Pot Cruises | 20 |
| The Blade | 2015 | Alufab Marine & Fabrication | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | 30 |
| Southern Edge | 2019 | Alufab Marine & Fabrication | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | Pennicott Wilderness Cruises | 22 |
Previously
| Name | Year Built | Builder | Initial Ownership | Current Ownership / Fate | Max. Passengers |
| MV Cartela | 1912 | Purdon & Featherstone | Huon, Channel & Peninsula Steamship Company | Franklin, Tasmania | 500 |
| MV Bundeena | 1946 | W Holmes Bros | Captain Robert Ryall | Lavender Bay, Sydney | 198 |
| Surprise | 1889 | Tom Purdon | | Unknown | |
| Success renamed Kathleen | c. 1880 | Jacob Bailey Chandler | | Unknown | |
| Result | | | | Unknown | |
| Victory | c. 1880 | Jacob Bailey Chandler | | Unknown | |
| Silver Crown | 1889 | Bayes Bros, William Bayes | | Unknown | |
| Huon | 1892 | | | Unknown | |
| Enterprise | 1872 | John Clark | | Unknown | |
| VS Kangaroo | 1903 | Lt-Governor William Denison | | Bellerive, Tasmania – sank 1929 | |
| SS Derwent | 1905 | | | Unknown | 590 |
| SS Rosny | 1913 | | | | |
| SS Lindisfarne | | | | Unknown | |
| SS Reemere | 1910 | Purdon & Featherstone | | Seen trading in Vanuatu in 2010 | |
| Lurgurena | 1926 | | | Unknown | |
| SS Lottah | 1901 | John Wilson | | Unknown | |
| SS Ronnie | 1903 | | | Unknown | |
| SS Breone | c. 1910 | Frederick Moore | | Unknown | |
| Bass | 1911 | Frederick Moore | | Unknown | |
| SS Beagle | | | | Unknown | 6 vehicles |
| MV Emmalisa (Formally Regent Star, Nowra, Challenger Head, Kangaroo) | 1947 | | Hobart Historic Cruises | Port Huon, Tas | |
| SS Marana | | Purdon & Featherstone | | Became a fishing trawler | |
| Monarch | | | | Sank at lime Kilns | |
| Emu | | P Degraves & J Gray | | Sank New Norfolk, Tas Bridge 1897 | |
| Maweena | 1913 | Purdon & Featherstone | | Burnt Bellerive, Tas 1929 | |
| SS Togo renamed (HMAS Phillip) | 1905 | Fred Moore | James Rowe & Sons | Decomm. 1931 – Gutted Mt. Direction, East Risdon 1946 | 500 |
| MV Excella | 1912 | John Dalgleish | James Rowe & Sons | Unknown | |
| SS Mangana previously George Peat | 1930 | Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company | | Unknown | 37 vehicles |
| SS Taranna | 1893 | | | Unknown | 120 |
| Ray Larsson | 1970 | Tamar Steel Boats, Launceston | | Unknown | |
| O’Hara Booth renamed Sydney | 1974 | | | Port Jackson | 120 |
| Phoenix | | | | Unknown | |
| Kosciusko | 1911 | David Drake Limited, Sydney | Sydney Ferries Limited, to Hobart 1975 | Prince of Wales Bay – Burnt | 785 |
| Lady Ferguson | | David Drake Limited, Sydney | Sydney Ferries Limited | rotten and broken up 1975 | |
| Wakatere (hovercraft) | 1973 | Hovermarine, Southampton | | Matiatia, Wakatere, NZ – Scrapped | |
| MV Matthew Brady | 1973 | Sullivans Cove Ferry Company | | Unknown | |
| MV James McCabe | 1974 | Sullivans Cove Ferry Company | | Unknown | |
| Lady Wakehurst | 1974 | Carrington Slipways | Public Transport Commission | Solomon Islands | 800 |
| MV Martin Cash | 1975 | Bob Clifford | | Sydney | |
| MV Jeremiah Ryan | 1977 | Incat | | Unknown | |
| MV James Kelly | 1979 | Incat | | Unknown | |
| H$_2$O Express | | | Hobart Water Taxis | Brisbane | 30 |
| SS Awittaka | 1910 | | Huon, Channel & Peninsula Steamship Company | Sold to the administration of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate | |
| SS Dover | | | Unknown | | |
| Rowitta | 1910 | Purdon & Featherstone | | Flagstaff Hill, Vic – demolished | |
| ML Gayclite | c. 1943 | | | Unknown | |
| ML Taruna | c. 1910 | Charles Harold McKay | | Unknown | |
| Melba | 1921 | Wilson Bros | | Unknown | 22 vehicles |
| MV Commodore | | | | Cygnet | |
| MV Wanderer | | | | Unknown | |
| MV Lady Jane | | | Captain Fells Historic Cruises | Abandoned | |
| MV Bowen | | | Backspring Pty Ltd | SeaLink Travel Group | 30 vehicles |
| MV Moongalba | 1974 | | Stradbroke Ferries | SeaLink Travel Group | 30 vehicles |
| MV Harry O May previously Man On | 1952 | Hong Kong United Dockyard, Hong Kong | | Launceston, Tas | 48 vehicles |
| MV Mirambeena | 1991 | Tamar Steel Boats, Launceston | Tasmanian Government | Disassembled 2022 | 74 vehicles |