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Largest in this registry
#77,670
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#44,614
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#3
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Our Lady Pamela was a high-speed catamaran ferry which operated between the Isle of Wight and mainland England. She had operated on the Wightlink Ryde Pier to Portsmouth route since 1986 under Sealink along with her now scrapped sister ship Our Lady Patricia. Both ships were named after the daughters of Lord Mountbatten, who had been the Governor of the Isle of Wight.
In March 2009, it was announced that Wightlink would be replacing its FastCat catamarans with two new vessels, Wight Ryder I and Wight Ryder II. Our Lady Pamela was, however, taken out of service earlier than the two other vessels, FastCat Ryde and FastCat Shanklin. This was partly due to an engine fire causing significant damage.
She was scrapped at Esbjerg in April 2010.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 313 gross tons, HSC Our Lady Pamela is the 77,670th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 19 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 44,614th by tonnage — larger than 10% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which HSC Our Lady Pamela is the 1,691st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 1,290 are larger by tonnage.
HSC Our Lady Pamela was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 767th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 47 vessels to Incat, with a median tonnage of 5,537 GT, delivered between 1986 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 29.6 m overall, HSC Our Lady Pamela is 85.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 11.8 m and a draft of 2.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8508931 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1984 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.
Its IMO number, 8508931, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 9×3 + 3×2 = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Alver | 1990 | 314 |
| Viking | 1968 | 314 |
| Simson | 1993 | 314 |
| HSC Our Lady Pamela (this ship) | 1986 | 313 |
| Kartika Mina No.1 | 1974 | 312 |
| Aurora | 1999 | 312 |
| IMO 9684043 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Our Lady Pamela on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy No machine-readable author provided. Cyberdemon007 assumed (based on copyright claims)., reused under Public domain.
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