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 80FREE ferry to Salamanca Market 18 January 2019 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)1941Purdon and FeatherstoneMarine Board of HobartMotor Yacht Club of Tasmania MV Cuttlefish 2020Richardson Devine MarineCuttlefish CruisesCuttlefish Cruises MV Nairana (MV Bruny Island Ferry#1) 2019Richardson Devine MarineSeaLink Travel GroupSeaLink Travel Group36 vehicles MV Parrabah (MV Bruny Island Ferry#2) 2020Richardson Devine MarineSeaLink Travel GroupSeaLink Travel Group36 vehicles MV Marana 2002 Richardson Devine Marine Navigators Port Arthur Historic SiteWild ThingKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43The ShearwaterKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43Silver GullKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43AlbatrossKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43Storm PetrelKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43Kirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43Kirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43Kirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesBruny Island Cruises and Tasman Island Cruises43Sea DragonKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesIron Pot Cruises20MinkeKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesIron Pot Cruises20Little PenguinKirby MarinePennicott Wilderness CruisesIron Pot Cruises20The Blade2015Alufab Marine & FabricationPennicott Wilderness CruisesPennicott Wilderness Cruises30Southern Edge2019Alufab Marine & FabricationPennicott Wilderness CruisesPennicott Wilderness Cruises22

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, SydneyMV Bundeena History retrieved 1 January 2019 198 Surprise 1889 Tom Purdon Unknown Success renamed Kathleen 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 1929Companion to Tasmanian History retrieved 1 January 2019 SS Derwent 1905 Unknown 590 SS Rosny 1913 SS Lindisfarne Unknown SS Reemere 1910Purdon & Featherstone Seen trading in Vanuatu in 2010 Lurgurena 1926 Unknown SS Lottah 1901John Wilson Unknown SS Ronnie 1903 Unknown SS Breone c. 1910Frederick 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 () 1905 Fred Moore James Rowe & Sons Decomm. 1931 – Gutted Mt. Direction, East Risdon 1946Togo-Once Cock-O'-The-River Towed To Ships' Graveyard For Breaking Up 31 October 1946500 MV Excella 1912 John Dalgleish James Rowe & Sons Unknown SS Mangana previously George Peat 1930Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company Unknown 37 vehicles SS Taranna 1893 Unknown 120 The Mercury, Hobart, Tas.Thursday 6 April 1893, passengers travel to South Arm for consecration of St.Barnabas SS Taranna, passing through the railway swing bridge at Bridgewater heading to New Norfolk, posted by Trainiac 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 – BurntHalf block ship model of Sydney screw steam ferry S S “Kosciusko “ retrieved 1 January 2019 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 IslandsSquat new ferry Lady Wakehurst kept the Manly service afloat retrieved 1 January 2019 800 MV Martin Cash 1975 Bob Clifford SydneyMartin Cash Cruises retrieved 1 January 2019 MV Jeremiah Ryan 1977 Incat Unknown MV James Kelly 1979 Incat Unknown H2O Express Hobart Water TaxisBrisbaneHobart water taxi operator Rod Howard winds up after seven years of ‘feast or famine’ 25 March 2015 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 – demolishedThe Removal of The Rowitta from Flagstaff Hill 22 April 2015 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 AbandonedIt's stormy seas for ferry boss 16 December 2013 MV Bowen Backspring Pty LtdSeaLink Travel Group 30 vehicles MV Moongalba 1974 Stradbroke Ferries SeaLink Travel Group 30 vehicles MV Harry O May previously Man On 1952Hong Kong United Dockyard, Hong KongLaunceston, Tas 48 vehicles MV Mirambeena 1991 Tamar Steel Boats, Launceston Tasmanian GovernmentDisassembled 2022What are your memories of the MV Mirambeena? 74 vehicles

References

Sources John Duffy and Louis Rodway, The Cock of the River "Cartela", 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/20140927001436/http://hobartwatertaxis.com/about-us/