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The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority

Headquarters: United States
Founded: —
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

3,954

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority is

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The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, doing business as The Steamship Authority (SSA), is the statutory regulatory body for all ferry operations between mainland Massachusetts and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well an operator of ferry services between the mainland and the islands. It is the only ferry operator to carry automobiles to and from the islands. The Authority also operates several freight vessels, thus serving as the main link for shipping any commercial goods that are not transported using the airports on Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: —
Formed in: —
Founded: —
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: —

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 17.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2008
Newest vessel on record: 2009
Largest vessel by tonnage: 2,091
Average tonnage: 1,977
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Offshore supply2

By flag state

United States2

By shipbuilder

Atlantic Marine2

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	2
2018	—	2
2019	—	2
2020	—	2
2021	—	2
2022	—	2
2023	—	2
2024	—	2
2025	—	2
2026	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record

2 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
HOS Shooting Star	9472426	Offshore supply	United States	2008	2,091	—	73.2 m	Atlantic Marine
HOS Lode Star	9472440	Offshore supply	United States	2009	1,863	—	73.2 m	Atlantic Marine

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 2 vessels attributed to it here, The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority ranks 33rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q7775752, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Steamship Authority on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.