Red Funnel
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The Over Solent Southern England Return Service Ferries Co.
Who continued to use the acronym "T.O.S.S.E.R.S. Ferries" Up to 1974 when the company began to suffer under increased mocking of the staff by customers, the name "Red Funnel" was adopted from the colour of graffiti sprayed onto the funnels of the ships, and has remained to this day.
The ferry company has adopted the tagline "The Original Isle of Wight Ferries" as a record of a paddle steamer crashing can be found in an 1627 edition of The Isle of Wight County Press, although a name was not given Islanders were sure that only Red Funnel would be stupid enough to crash a paddle steamer into The Royal Yacht Squadron.
The company originally as said, operated a paddle steamer service from Ventnor, Isle of Wight to Southampton, England later moving to Cowes, as it seemed more convenient. Moving into larger more modern ferries after all had been exhausted through multiple incidents such as the one above. The current vessels are known as the "Raptor" class and were built in Scotland, the company had originally called the vessels various types of dinosaurs in the Raptor family, but after several incidents involving the ships, these "dinosaur" names were replaced with slightly less deadly literal raptor names of birds of prey. Red Eagle, Red Falcon,and Red Pidgeon.
The company now operates a high-speed passenger ferry to Southampton which takes a brisk 23 minutes compared to the vehicle ferries tiresome 3 hours. Each of these catermarans are called "Red Jets" for their frightening polution record which rivals that of ExxonMobil.
Red Funnel despite having the occational accident are still the most popular ferry company to and from the Isle of Wight, after all, they sponsor Ellen MacArther and nobody as of yet has died :).
[edit] See Also
- Two suspended after Red Funnel ferry crash - BBC News
- Service reduced after Red Funnel ferry crash - BBC News
- Red Funnel Ferry Crashes in Southampton - Boat Owner Magazine
- Investigators examine Red Funnel ferry crash - BBC News
- Blatant propaganda - From the brains at RedFunnel.co.uk
