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At one time in the early twenty first century there were ferry services from Fleetwood to Larne and Douglas, but by 2010 all sailings had ended with services transferred to Heysham. The Fleetwood berth is limited to vessels up to 150 metres in length with a draught of 4.2 metres whereas Heysham can accommodate ships up to 7 metres draught. Today only an increasingly sad looking linkspan survives and the silting of the port means that a resumption of ferry services is unlikely. You can still cross the Wyre on a small ferry but that's all that is left.