Cable ferry
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A cable ferry is a ferry that is guided across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. The earliest examples date from the 13th century, and often used either rope or steel
Coin-operated cable ferry at Espevær in Bømlo, Norway
Chain-pulling engine of a small ferry on Berounka river near Prague, Czech Republic
Cable ferry in Vaxholm, Sweden
Simple cable ferry, Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1939
Reaction ferry
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A reaction ferry is a cable ferry that uses the reaction of the current of a river against a fixed tether to propel the vessel across the water. Such ferries operate faster and more effectively in riv
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…to transport automobiles across the Ottawa River in Ontario. There are several in British Columbia: two on the Fraser, one at Lytton, one at Big Bar (reaction ferries), three on Arrow Lakes. A suspended cable ferry worked until the 1980s in Boston Bar. A small seasonal reaction ferry carries cars across the Rivière…
Reaction ferry crossing the Rhine at Basel, Switzerland
The Lytton Ferry across the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, is a reaction ferry using an overhead cable and traveller, visible in the upper right corner.
The Aken Ferry, Germany
The Westerhüsen Ferry across the Elbe in Germany is a reaction ferry using a floating cable attached to a mid-channel anchorage, to the right of the boat.