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Largest in this registry
#16,831
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#9,387
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Isle of Inishmore is a ro-ro ferry owned by Irish Ferries and operated on their Dover-Calais service. At the time of her introduction, she was the largest car ferry operating in Northern Europe. She is named after Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands. The name of the ferry is tautologous, since "Inishmore" derives from the Irish for "big island". Despite not being sister ships, the ship's design is copied from the Stena Line vessel Stena Jutlandica up until the superstructure.
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 34,031 gross tons, MS Isle of Inishmore is the 16,831st 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 5.7 times 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 9,387th by tonnage — larger than 81% 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.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which MS Isle of Inishmore is the 362nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 915 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Cyprus flag, of which 230 are larger by tonnage.
MS Isle of Inishmore was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 221st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 76 vessels to Van der Giessen de Noord, with a median tonnage of 11,335 GT, delivered between 1944 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 182.0 m overall, MS Isle of Inishmore is 67.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 27.8 m and a draft of 5.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9142605 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.
Its IMO number, 9142605, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 2×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Medi Atlantico | 2016 | 34,049 |
| Medi Zuoz | 2017 | 34,049 |
| Medi Adriatico | 2016 | 34,049 |
| MS Isle of Inishmore (this ship) | 1996 | 34,031 |
| Tai Splendor | 2015 | 34,009 |
| Princess Pia | 1979 | 34,002 |
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 MS Isle of Inishmore (1996) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy euphro, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| Indigo Heritage |
| 2019 |
| 34,000 |