The Invergordon Archive
No: 235 Contributor: Invergordon Museum and Heritage Centre Year: 1900
Invergordon Ferry
The caption to this photo is : "Ferry Slip, Invergordon". Can anybody supply more information. The photo is damaged and the boat has a registration that appears to be INS 1381.
See also picture #325
Picture added on 12 May 2004
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Invergordon Ferries
Invergordon Ferries
This seems a little small to be a ferry, surely it's a fishing boat particularly wih a registration number like that?
Added by Andrew Bathie on 04 September 2004
Yes, I agree it's rather small, but take a look a picture #325. I may be wrong, but I think it shows the same boat.
Added by Malcolm McKean on 04 September 2004
Yes it does look like one and the same. Have a look at the Cromarty image library. There are some ferries on there too but none appear to have a registration number like this one. There are also a number of pictures of fishing boats of about the same vintage which look almost identical and have similar registration numbers. The slip way shown on the other picture seems a little elaborate for a little boat like this. It may be that he's the local entrepreneur and also takes paying customers or he may have just found a convenient place to get to and from his boat without getting his feet wet.
Added by Andrew Bathie on 05 September 2004
That's 100% a local fishing vessel with INS/inverness registration numbers, I've seen old pictures of boats landing there catch on the west harbour which must have dated the late 1800s which were also INS registered.
I worked on a boat that was built in the early 60s which used to drift net for herring as far up as Dingwall.
I worked on a boat that was built in the early 60s which used to drift net for herring as far up as Dingwall.
Added by Kyle McNeil on 16 July 2019
Invergordon Ferries
