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Operator on record: 1975-1978: Union Steamship Co
Photo: Ross · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#34,656
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#19,638
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Stena Seafarer was a ro-ro ferry that operated on the service between Larne, Northern Ireland and Fleetwood, England.
She was built in 1975 for Stena Line as Union Melbourne, before being renamed Union Trader in 1980. In the same year, the ship was acquired by P&O Irish Sea, becoming Puma, then European Seafarer in 1998. In 2004 Stena Line the vessel transferred from P&O Irish Sea to Stena Line. In 2004 the ship was renamed to Stena Seafarer.
Following Stena Line's announcement in late 2010 that they were to close the Larne to Fleetwood service in the following year the ship was sold to Anship and renamed Ant 2. She was scrapped at Aliağa in 2014.
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 10,957 gross tons, MS Stena Seafarer is the 34,656th 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 1.8 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 19,638th by tonnage — larger than 60% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which MS Stena Seafarer is the 128th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag, of which 37 are larger by tonnage.
MS Stena Seafarer was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 519th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 140.0 m overall, MS Stena Seafarer is 25.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 19.4 m and a draft of 5.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7361594 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1974 to 1977. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.
Its IMO number, 7361594, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 6×5 + 1×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Om Shakti | 1982 | 10,964 |
| Coastal 2 | 1984 | 10,962 |
| Fu Da | 1977 | 10,960 |
| MS Stena Seafarer (this ship) | 1975 | 10,957 |
| Salvador Allende | 1973 | 10,954 |
| Khirurg Vishnevskiy | 1988 | 10,949 |
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.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Stena Seafarer on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Ross, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| 1988 |
| 10,949 |