Tay Road Bridge Hunter. The nickname “Steve” won an online poll to nickname the Bridge. The Tay Road Bridge was built to replace the former Tay ferry service, popularly known in Dundee as "the Fifie". A passenger and vehicle ferry service across the River Tay operated from Craigie Pier, Dundee, to Newport-on-Tay. Four vessels formerly operated the service, namely the "B. L. Nairn" and "Sir William High" (both Paddle Steamers built in 1929); the "Abercraig" and the "Scotscraig" (diesel powered, fitted with Voith Schneider propellors and built in the Caledon Shipyard in Dundee). The final ferry service was made on the day of
John Tay John Tay John I. Tay (1832 – 8 January 1892) was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary who was known for his pioneering work in the South Pacific. It was through his efforts that most of the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island were converted to Adventism, and that the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists purchased the "Pitcairn" schooner for missionary work in the South Pacific. John I. Tay was born in 1832. He went to sea when he was sixteen. Tay served on the U.S. sloop-of-war USS "Housatonic" during the American Civil War (1861–65). He settled in Oakland, California after the war, and