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Irish Ferries

Headquarters: Dublin
Founded: 1973
Employees: —

Official website

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

171,618

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Irish Ferries is

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Irish Ferries is an Irish ferry and transport company that operates passenger and freight services on routes between Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe, including Dublin Port–Holyhead; Rosslare Europort to Pembroke, Dublin Port-Cherbourg and more recently Dover in the UK to Calais in France.
The company is a division of the Irish Continental Group (ICG) which trades on the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. ICG also owns the Eucon container line which operates vessels on routes operating between Ireland and the continent.

Irish Ferries' flagship, Ulysses, is currently the largest ROPAX ferry operating on the Irish Sea and when launched in 2001 was the world's largest car ferry in terms of car-carrying capacity. Other ships in the fleet include W.B. Yeats, Isle of Inishmore, Isle of Innisfree, Isle of Inisheer, James Joyce and the fast ferry Dublin Swift (preceded by HSC Jonathan Swift, which operated until 2018). The company also charters ro-pax vessel Oscar Wilde (formerly named Spirit of Britain), with a purchase option on the vessel.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: private limited company
Country of registration: Ireland
Headquarters: Dublin
Formed in: —
Founded: 1973
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 53.3497, -6.2603

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 20.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1996
Newest vessel on record: 2018
Largest vessel by tonnage: 50,938
Average tonnage: 42,905
Market share: —
Parent company: Irish Continental Group
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Irish Ferries. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Aker Finnyards2

Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft1

Van der Giessen de Noord1

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. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	0	—	3
2018	1	50,400	4
2019	0	—	4
2020	0	—	4
2021	0	—	4
2022	0	—	4
2023	0	—	4
2024	0	—	4
2025	0	—	4
2026	0	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Ulysses	9214991	Ferry	Cyprus	2001	50,938	—	209.0 m	Aker Finnyards
MV W.B. Yeats	9809679	Unclassified	Cyprus	2018	50,400	7,859	194.0 m	Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
Oscar Wilde	9364722	Ro-Ro	Cyprus	2007	36,249	3,500	186.0 m	Aker Finnyards
MS Isle of Inishmore	9142605	Unclassified	Cyprus	1996	34,031	5,860	182.0 m	Van der Giessen de Noord

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 Irish Ferries compares

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

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Irish Ferries is the 213th 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.

Ireland is the country of registration for 4 commercial operators in this directory, among which Irish Ferries ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 8 vessels here. See every operator registered in Ireland.

Founded in 1973, Irish Ferries is 53 years old. This directory holds 118 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q997355, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Irish Ferries on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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