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As more and more people became car owners so they abandoned the traditional passenger ferries, instead taking their cars with them across the Solent. In the twenty-nine years between 1961 and 1990 the vehicular capacity of the Fishbourne ferry fleet grew by 1000% whilst the capacity of the nearby Portsmouth to Ryde passenger ferry decreased by a corresponding proportion.All of the car ferry routes to the Island have prospered but none more so than the Fishbourne car ferry. This is largely due to the convenience of its location and heavy investment in new tonnage at a time when it was really needed. The Fishbourne ferry's history can be split into three distinct phases. The first began when the Southern Railway transferred the Island terminal of a primitive towboat service from a tidally restrictive berth next to Ryde Pier. Over the next four years they transformed the service by introducing three small, slow, but revolutionary ferries. These ships lasted for over thirty years, the longest period in recent history (and probably ever) that a cross Solent service has operated with a completely unchanged fleet. The second phase, between 1961 and 1983, was a period when the operating company constantly struggled to accommodate the inexorable increase in traffic. A pair of new ferries soon proved to be decidedly undersized and two considerably larger ships were added to the fleet.When the later pair where still quite new their capacity was increased further by the installation of mezzanine decks but still the company was hard pressed to cope with the traffic. The operating company took the bull by the horns and over a period of seven years introduced a fleet of four so-called 'super ferries' during the third and current phase of the life of the route. When capacity problems once again became an issue an even larger, fifth ferry was added to the fleet in 2001 confirming the route as the principal gateway to the Isle of Wight. Today, the operator is faced with the same dilemma as at the end of the first and second phases, ie the service is full to capacity at peak periods. Further radical changes will probably take place in the near future. This book looks back at the history of the Fishbourne car ferry and speculates on what may lie ahead. It examines traffic trends over the years and takes an objective look at fares  -  always the most hotly debated topic on cross-Solent ferries, but one that is rarely discussed in books of this type.This book is intended to be of general interest and should provide something for local historians and shipping enthusiasts alike. 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