DSCF8271 Red Funnel ferry and Red Jet vessels at Southampton - 30 Jun 2017

Friday 30 June 2017 (1800) – Red Funnel operates services from Southampton to the Isle of Wight. The Red Jet passenger only fast craft services sails to Cowes whereas the car and passenger ferry service sails into East Cowes. The two towns are on opposite banks of the River Medina. Around this very day the Red Funnel company, owned by Infracapital (an infrastructure fund itself owned by Prudential) since 2007, was bought by the West Midlands Pension Fund and the Insurance Board of the Province of Ontario.