The “Elvina” operates as a backup vessel in order to maintain the integrity of the schedule. She is of timber construction and is a classic ferry still sound and reliable and surveyed to carry 27 passengers. She is believed to have been built in 1928 by Goddards of Palm Beach and was originally called the “Falcon”. In the 1940s she was bought by the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company.
Ferry Services around this time where quite basic, being mainly tourist trips around Pittwater. In 1934-4 the Port Jackson Company purchased the controversial “Currawong” site and added this to its Ferry Service.
During the war it is believed that the Falcon took troops to the gun emplacements located on West Head.
It is thought that the Falcon was purchased by E.H. Caldwell of Church Point in December 1951and her name changed to the Elvina after one of the bays serviced by the Church Point Ferry Service in Pittwater. It is likely that this was when the Church Point Ferry Service was started under this existing trading name.
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