page_title: Duck tour
section_title: Former Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Duck tour / Former Operators
caption_attribution_description: The Bay Quackers DUKW "Peking Duck" near Fisherman's Wharf.
context_page_description: Duck tours are tours that take place on purpose-built amphibious tour buses or military surplus DUKWs and LARC-Vs. They are often offered as tourist attractions in harbor, river and lake cities.
context_section_description: San Francisco's 'Bay Quackers' operated from 2004 until 2011, splashing into San Francisco Bay near AT&T Park in modified DUKWs. They were targeted in a lawsuit by 'Ride the Ducks' for use of the quacker kazoos in a sound mark infringement case, however the lawsuit was later dropped.  
  Liverpool's 'Yellow Duckmarine' tours (a wordplay on the Beatles song Yellow Submarine) had 4 DUKWs in 2014, one of which saw service in the D-day landings. The service carried over two million passengers in its 13-year life and was ridden by Queen Elizabeth II during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012. These are no longer operating due to the liquidation of the company following two separate sinkings in 2013.
  There was also a Duck offering rides at Instow in Devon. It was built on Jersey in 1998 and operated as a ferry taking passengers to Elizabeth Castle until 2006. The operator in Jersey had three – the other two have gone to Krakow and Berlin.
  London's "London Duck Tours limited" owned 13 vessels prior to 2017, of which some saw action in D-day. They were operating DUKWs in the UK but closed on 18 September 2017.
caption: Bay Quackers DUKW 'Peking Duck" before a tour
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