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The Mount Batten Ferry operates between the Barbican and Mount Batten all year round. Operating every 30 minutes, departing from the Barbican quarter past and quarter to the hour, Mount Batten on the hour and half hour. Barbican to Mount Batten Ferry, operating 363 days a year ( no Christmas Day or New Year's Day service).

The Cattewater is that stretch of water where the mouth of the River Plym merges with Plymouth Sound, just to the east of Sutton Pool. It is around this Pool that the manor of Sutton started, which grew to form the present day city. On the northern shore of this confluence of waters there was a rock outcrop, which it was claimed, had the appearance of a cat. This gave its name to this stretch of water and eventually the name of Cattedown to the adjoining wharves and commercial area. Apart from an occasional small oil tanker the area is now used mostly by fishing trawlers, yachts, and smaller pleasure craft.