Talk:Cable ferry

message: I'm a descendant of the person who invented the first underwater cable ferry.Yay! Helo254 20:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: This article claims that:
:The first underwater cable ferry was invented by William Pitt and was installed on the Kennebecasis River near Saint John, New Brunswick in Canada in the early 1900s
The reference cited by this claim actually goes further and states it was the first cable ferry. That certainly isn't true, the first cable ferries probably date back to pre-history, and there are documented examples on the River Clyde in the 18th century.
Submerged chain ferries are also older than the early 1900s. Indeed WP has an article on an engineer (James Meadows Rendel) who was responsible for some of the breakthroughs in submerged chain ferry design in the 1830s, and who designed several such ferries including for the still existing service at Torpoint Ferry.
I guess it is possible that William Pitt was responsible for the first ferry that used submerged cables rather than chains, but I'm not totally convinced. I suspect the 'cable ferry'/'chain ferry' distinction is more a linguistic issue between North American English and UK English than a technological difference. Can anybody contribute to our knowledge here. -- Chris j wood 20:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparantly not. I shall therefore remove the claim until somebody can, as the current wording is patently misleading. -- Chris j wood 20:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

text: It's a linguistic issue, as the English "cable ferry" as in this article includes both chain and rope ferries but doesn't distinguish between the two. In German the terminology is "Kettenfähre" and "Seilfähre", so that it is clear. I'll try to work in some distinction into this article. Theosch (talk) 15:05, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First (underwater) cable ferry 

message: I've removed the following paragraph:
:Cable ferries were particularly prominent in the era of canals during the 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe and North America. Such devices allowed the transfer of canal barges continually from one canal to another across a river in the presence of a  substantial transverse flow. A cable ferry across the Delaware River constructed in 1831 allowed large-scale the transportation of coal from the Lehigh Valley directly to New York City via the Morris Canal without reloading of the canal boats. 
It is a great paragraph, but it seems to be describing something quite different to the subject of this article. I don't see how a cable ferry, as described in this article, would help canal boats cross rivers. I'm sure there is something worth saying here, but I suspect it belongs in a different article, or a different section, with more explanation as to exactly how a cable ferry was used in this way. Sadly there are no cites, so difficult to follow up further. Perhaps the original author can help. -- Starbois (talk) 16:09, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cable ferries for carrying boats? 

message: The article currently lists the Glenora Ferry as a cable ferry.  I am dubious.  
MV Quinte Loyalist usually works on the Glenora run -- but sometimes fills in for the ferry that runs from Millhaven to Amherst Island.  Would a cable ferry really fill in for a ferry to an Island?  Geo Swan (talk) 22:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Glenora_ferry_a_cable_ferry?

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message: Which is the longest cable ferry link in the world?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:DF:1F1F:A638:7526:8343:8CAB:F640 (talk) 00:09, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest cable ferry link