Photos - Firth of Forth - Ferry Boats - South Queensferry to North Queensferry

Ferry Boats across the Firth of Forth at Queensferry, Edinburgh © © The Queensferry Passage South Queensferry to North Queensferry
*'Queen Margaret*	Wooden paddle steamer. Built Leith 1821
*'Forfarshire* ©	Built Dundee 1861. On Queensferry Passage for >20 yrs from1893 Re-boilered and given very tall funnel 1904. Broken up 1922
*'Woolwich'* ©	Built Blackwall 1890. On Queensferry Passage from 1908 Broken up 1923
*'Dundee'* ©	Built Renfrew 1875. Re-boilered 1914 Capacity: 997 passengers + 3 lorries + 2 cars Operated Queensferry Passage 1920-1948. Broken up 1952
*'Queen Margaret'* ©	Built Dumbarton 1934 Broken up 1965	Double-ended, side loading, diesel electric paddle driven boats. Capacity, 28 cars each Operated 1934-1964.
*'Robert the Bruce'* © ©	Built Dumbarton 1934 Broken up 1965
*'Mary Queen of Scots''* ©	Built Dumbarton 1949 Broken up 1965	Appearance: similar to 'Queen Margaret' Operated 1950-1964.
*'Sir William Wallace''* ©	Built Dumbarton 1956	Operated 1956-1964.
'*Ferries (above) decommissioned at North Queensferry* ©	Built 1934, 1949, 1956	Decommissioned 1964
Acknowledgements An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways ( Smith + Anderson) Irwell Press, 1995 Steamers of the Forth (Ian Brodie): Publ. David & Charles, 1976 Steamers of the Forth, Vol 1 (Ian Brodie): Stenlake Publishing Ltd., 2004 Ferries in Scotland (Marie Weir): Publ. John Donald, 1988 Frank Hay, Queensferry, Edinburgh (a Member of Queensferry History Group
Dates of Photographs This list of ferries may be helpful in dating some of the old photos and postcards of ferries on the Queensferry Passage.. The Queensferry Passage, across the Forth between South Queensferry and North Queensferry, ended when the Forth Road Bridge was opened on 4 September 1964.
More Photos Above, I have included just one photo of each of the ferries. Here is another page of early views of the Firth of Forth. It has more photos of the some of the ferries and zooms-in on some of these photos.