MV Hamnavoe
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MV Hamnavoe is a car and passenger ferry, built in 2002 and operated by NorthLink Ferries across the Pentland Firth from the mainland of Scotland to the Orkney Islands.
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MV Hamnavoe at Scrabster Harbour in 2008 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Hamnavoe |
Namesake | The old Viking name for Stromness, meaning safe harbour |
Owner |
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Operator | NorthLink Ferries |
Port of registry | Kirkwall, UK |
Route | Scrabster to Stromness, Orkney |
Builder | Aker Finnyards, Rauma, Finland |
Cost | £28 million |
Yard number | 440 |
Laid down | 27 November 2001 (metal cutting)[1] |
Launched | June 2002 (float-out)[2] |
Christened |
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Completed | 2002 |
In service | 23 April 2003[4] |
Homeport | Stromness |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Roll on/Roll Off Passenger Ferry |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 5,350 tons |
Length | 112 m (367 ft)[5] |
Beam | 18.5 m (61 ft) |
Draught | 4.4 m (14 ft) |
Decks | 7 |
Installed power | 2 × MaK 9M32C, each 4,340 kW (5,820 bhp) |
Propulsion | Controllable pitch propellers |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 28 |
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