Queensferry Passage – History of the Forth Ferries 1934–1964.

Car Ferries that operated on the River Forth.

This website documents the history of the Queensferry Passage and the four car ferries that operated between North Queensferry and South Queensferry from 1934 until the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964.

Robert The The Bruce at South Queensferry

PS Dundee

This web site mainly deals with the 4 ferries that were built by Denny's between 1934-1955, however there was another ferry the Dundee which operated between 1917 and 1949. This ferryboat operated as a relief vessel from 1934 after the arrival of the Bruce and the Margaret. It finished in 1949 when the Mary arrived and she was scrapped in 1951. While operating on the Queensferry Passage she was leased to Wm Denny & Bros. Ltd.

Queensferry Passage Ferry Photographs – 1934–1964 -
The Dundee

PS Dundee

Dundee details:-

Launched 22/05/1875 by ship builders William Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew (yard no. 187)
- Gross Tonnage 264
- Length 149.3ft
- Beam 27.1ft
- Engines - Wm Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew - Compound diagonal 2cyl. (23 & 42 x 42"), 80bhp - Paddle wheel.

PS Dundee

Details of three of the ferries the Dundee, Bruce and Margaret have been traced in the Lloyds Register.

Queensferry Passage Ferry Photographs – 1934–1964 -
Dundee

PS Dundee