cable ferry

noun, a ferry that runs along an underwater cable connecting two points of land across a body of water

“We went over in the cable ferry, and a week later we drove back, across the channel.”

“When I was young, we used to just have our own small boats that go to the city. We didn’t have any other way ’til, well, 1963 they put in the cable ferry up there.”

“The Old Grenville [ship] brought everything down, come down the channel, and they unloaded everything on the ferry dock, before the ferry was there, eh, the cable ferry.”

“On that cable ferry, he had to have hot water [to melt the ice on the cable].”