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water transport

Isle of Man Steam Packet Company

Headquarters: Douglas
Founded: 1830
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Philphos · CC BY-SA 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

18,833

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Isle of Man Steam Packet Company is

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The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Limited (abbreviated to IoMSPCo or, locally, The Steam Packet (Manx: Phaggad Bree Ellan Vannin)) is the oldest continuously operating passenger shipping company in the world, having been founded in 1830.
The company provides freight, passenger and vehicle services between the Isle of Man Sea Terminal, in Douglas, Isle of Man, and four ports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is owned by the Isle of Man Government.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Douglas
Formed in: —
Founded: 1830
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 54.1500, -4.4775

Ships on record here: 17
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 7
Average vessel age: 62.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1946
Newest vessel on record: 1998
Largest vessel by tonnage: 12,747
Average tonnage: 6,278
Market share: —
Parent company: Banco Espírito Santo
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 17 vessels this registry attributes to Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Cammell Laird7

Ailsa Shipbuilding Company5

R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company1

Van der Giessen de Noord1

Vickers-Armstrongs1

Incat1

George Brown & Co. Greenock1

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	—	16
2018	—	16
2019	—	16
2020	—	16
2021	—	16
2022	—	16
2023	—	16
2024	—	16
2025	—	16
2026	—	16

Vessel records

Ships on record · Passenger vessel

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
TSS Manxman	5219943	Passenger vessel	Isle of Man	1955	—	—	105.1 m	Cammell Laird

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 Isle of Man Steam Packet Company compares

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

With 17 vessels attributed to it here, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company is the 46th 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 Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ranks 2nd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1830, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company is 196 years old. This directory holds 5 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 3 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.