Passengers have raised questions after a ferry crashed into a dock on Friday afternoon.

According to several travellers, the 5.20pm Rockaway ferry struck the dock at Cavello Bay hard enough to cause some minor injuries.

Deborah Smith-Joell said she hurt her finger during the collision, while another woman was knocked to the ground.

“I’m one of the people who doesn’t stand up until the ferry is finished moving,” she said. “I was reading my Kindle when I was just knocked forward into the table.

“When I looked around, there was one lady who was on the ground.

“Then a guy came down from the wheel house and said it was his fault. He wasn’t wearing a uniform or anything. I was thinking he’s not in costume, what is he doing on stage. He must have been a trainee or a friend of the captain.

“He said, ‘It was my fault, I touched the panel’.”

Mrs Smith-Joell said that the captain later came out and asked the passengers if anyone had been injured.

A second passenger on the boat confirmed the incident, saying: “The ferry hit the dock quite hard. It was a real thud. I know one woman injured her finger and another who hit her head quite hard.

“Then someone comes out of the wheel house where the captain should have been and said: ‘Sorry. It was my fault.’ And he wasn’t dressed like a ferry employee. I don’t know what he was doing in there. Maybe he was joking, but it seemed rather odd.”

A spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism Development and Transport yesterday confirmed that there had been a “hard landing” by a ferry on Friday that was reported to the ferry superintendent, adding that inquiries into the incident continued.