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Barcos del pasaje

English translation: ferries / ferryboats / boats of passage

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Spanish term or phrase:Barcos del pasaje
English translation:ferries / ferryboats / boats of passage
Entered by: broca

19:29 May 21, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
Spanish term or phrase: Barcos del pasaje
Please note it is "Barcos DEL pasaje", and not "Barcos de pasaje", so maybe "passenger ships" is not quite right.

http://www.gentedelpuerto.com/2017/03/03/3-085-de-el-puerto-...
broca
Local time: 07:23
ferries / ferryboats / boats of passage
Explanation:
That's what it means: a vessel for carrying passengers across a not very wide stretch of water, in this case the bay of Cadiz, between Puerto de Santa María and Cadiz. The last one was the Adriano III, which sank in 2011:
http://www.diariodejerez.es/jerez/historia-barcos-delpasaje-...

"El pasaje" means the crossing between the two places.

"Ferry" make may modern British people think of the channel ferries, but it's quite an old word; it's in Shakespeare ("the common ferry / which trades to Venice"). If you want it to sound a bit more historical, you might use "ferryboat", or even "boat of passage", which is occasionally found in older texts, but perhaps sounds too small (though "ship of passage" would sound too large; it suggests an ocean-going vessel). On the whole, I think I'd go with "ferry".l

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Note added at 31 mins (2018-05-21 20:01:01 GMT)
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I can still remember the first time I went to Cadiz, by train from Madrid. It took about half an hour to go round the bay. I didn't realise there was a ferry.
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 07:23
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4 +3ferries / ferryboats / boats of passage
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ferries / ferryboats / boats of passage


Explanation:
That's what it means: a vessel for carrying passengers across a not very wide stretch of water, in this case the bay of Cadiz, between Puerto de Santa María and Cadiz. The last one was the Adriano III, which sank in 2011:
http://www.diariodejerez.es/jerez/historia-barcos-delpasaje-...

"El pasaje" means the crossing between the two places.

"Ferry" make may modern British people think of the channel ferries, but it's quite an old word; it's in Shakespeare ("the common ferry / which trades to Venice"). If you want it to sound a bit more historical, you might use "ferryboat", or even "boat of passage", which is occasionally found in older texts, but perhaps sounds too small (though "ship of passage" would sound too large; it suggests an ocean-going vessel). On the whole, I think I'd go with "ferry".l

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Note added at 31 mins (2018-05-21 20:01:01 GMT)
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I can still remember the first time I went to Cadiz, by train from Madrid. It took about half an hour to go round the bay. I didn't realise there was a ferry.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 07:23
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 312
Grading comment
Thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marie Wilson
23 mins
  -> Thanks, Marie :-)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: 'Ferry' is perfect. We in the US don't qualify it in any way.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Muriel! Nowadays we just use "ferry" in British English too. I think it's the best word to cover the whole period (16th to 21st centuries)
agree  neilmac: I now have the chorus of "Ferry across the Mersey" as an earworm thanks to seeing this... :)
10 hrs
  -> And now I do too, thanks to you! Cheers, Neil ;-)
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