THIS IS the first week of the school summer holidays and Red Funnel will be cancelling a number of sailings due to essential maintenance to one of its fleet today (Tuesday, July 30).  

Red Funnel is advising customers of a revised timetable on its East Cowes to Southampton service.

"Essential maintenance to Red Osprey’s aft main engine, means it has been necessary to cancel a number of sailings, at what is possibly the busiest time of the year," said Red Funnel, on its website.

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The revised timetable for today is as follows:

Departing East Cowes: 01:30 | 04:30 | 07:30 | 08:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 23:30

Departing Southampton: 03:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 22:00 | 23:59

The cross-Solent operator has apologised for any inconvenience to your journey the changes will cause.