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freight transport

Wightlink

Headquarters: Portsmouth
Founded: 1991
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: David Jones · CC BY 2.0 · 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

10,900

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Wightlink is

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Wightlink is a ferry company operating routes across The Solent between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in the south of England. It operates car ferries between Lymington and Yarmouth, and Portsmouth and Fishbourne and a fast passenger-only catamaran between Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier. It is jointly owned by Basalt Infrastructure Partners and Fiera Infrastructure.

Quoted from Wightlink on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: freight transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Portsmouth
Formed in: Portsmouth
Founded: 1991
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 50.8058, -1.0872

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 22.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1986
Newest vessel on record: 2018
Largest vessel by tonnage: 8,041
Average tonnage: 3,633
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Wightlink. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified3

By flag state

United Kingdom3

By shipbuilder

Cemre Shipyard1

Incat1

Kraljevica Shipyard1

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	—	2
2018	1	8,041	3
2019	0	—	3
2020	0	—	3
2021	0	—	3
2022	0	—	3
2023	0	—	3
2024	0	—	3
2025	0	—	3
2026	0	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record · Unclassified

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Victoria of Wight	9791028	Unclassified	United Kingdom	2018	8,041	—	89.7 m	Cemre Shipyard
MV Wight Sky	9446984	Unclassified	United Kingdom	2008	2,546	—	60.0 m	Kraljevica Shipyard
HSC Our Lady Pamela	8508931	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1986	313	—	29.6 m	Incat

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 Wightlink compares

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

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Wightlink is the 262nd 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 Wightlink ranks 18th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1991, Wightlink is 35 years old. This directory holds 134 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.