Ferry Guernsey - Dielette

Guernsey – Dielette with Manche Iles Express

This route links Guernsey with Dielette, operated by Manche Iles Express. The two ferry terminals are about 49 kilometres (27 nautical miles) apart in a straight line. Use the search engine above for current timetables and fares, or use the Direct Ferries button at the top of the page to compare the sailings.

Launched in 2005 by the département of La Manche, Manche Iles Express links Granville, Barneville-Carteret and Diélette with Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney on two ferries owned by the département. Sailings were suspended in 2021, resumed in 2022 and are now supported by the islands too.

Guernsey

Guernsey is an island of small, specific delights. The Little Chapel at Les Vauxbelets, begun by Brother Déodat in 1914, is a miniature cathedral covered in pebbles, seashells and fragments of broken china, and is said to be among the smallest chapels in the world. The island's name lives on in clothing, the guernsey jumper once knitted for its fishermen, and in the golden-milk Guernsey cow. More recently it became the setting for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, the 2008 novel and 2018 film about life after the wartime Occupation. From St Peter Port, boats leave for neighbouring Herm and Sark, so the harbour makes a natural base for island-hopping.

Dielette

The little harbour of Diélette looks sleepy, but beneath it lies one of the oddest industrial stories in Normandy. From 1877 until 1962 an iron mine worked ore from beneath the sea here, with shafts 150 metres deep and galleries running out under the Channel, and the miners came from Italy, Spain and Poland as well as Normandy. Before the iron, the cliffs were quarried for Flamanville granite, which went into Cherbourg's harbour works and into the Pont Neuf and the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Today the headland is dominated by the Flamanville nuclear power station, built partly on land reclaimed from the sea on the site of the old mine. The coast itself is still wild: the Cap de Flamanville, a short walk away, has cliffs rising to about 90 metres, and in summer a high-speed passenger ferry leaves Diélette for Alderney and Guernsey.