Ferry Guernsey - Granville

Guernsey – Granville with Manche Iles Express

This route links Guernsey with Granville, operated by Manche Iles Express. The two ferry terminals are about 95 kilometres (50 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.

Granville

Granville lives by the tide. The range in the bay can exceed 13 metres, so boats sit on the mud at low water and the harbour changes character within hours. The Chausey islands, a granite archipelago a short boat trip offshore, multiply from a handful of islands into hundreds of rocks and islets when the sea goes out. In November 1793 the walled Haute Ville was attacked by the royalist Vendée army during its long march north; the town held, and the failure to take a port where help from Britain might have landed is often seen as the beginning of the end for the rebellion. Mont-Saint-Michel and the bay of the same name are about an hour's drive away, and in summer boats run from Granville to Jersey and Chausey.