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Largest in this registry
#38,677
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#22,139
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Victoria of Wight is a ship sailing on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route operated by Wightlink. She entered service on 26 August 2018. Built by the Cemre Shipyard in Yalova for £30 million, she is the newest ship in the fleet and completed Wightlink's £45 million investment in the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route. In addition, upon introduction into service Victoria of Wight became the largest ship in the fleet and the new flagship.
While she is the broadest vessel to make regular crossings to the Isle of Wight, she is not the longest passenger ship, with Red Funnel's Raptor class ferries exceeding Victoria of Wight in length. The Victoria of Wight is notable for its use of a hybrid technology, combining battery power and conventional engines. This results in the ship being both quieter and releasing fewer emissions than the rest of Wightlink's fleet.
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 8,041 gross tons, MV Victoria of Wight is the 38,677th 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 1.3 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 22,139th by tonnage — larger than 55% 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 MV Victoria of Wight is the 422nd 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 224 are larger by tonnage.
MV Victoria of Wight was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 752nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 13 vessels to Cemre Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 4,075 GT, delivered between 2012 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 89.7 m overall, MV Victoria of Wight is 25.3 m shorter 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 2.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9791028 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 2018 and which range from 2016 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.
Its IMO number, 9791028, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 9×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Jean De La Valette | 2010 | 8,045 |
| Barda | 2012 | 8,045 |
| Golden Resolution | 2014 | 8,045 |
| MV Victoria of Wight (this ship) | 2018 | 8,041 |
| Heilbronn | 1915 | 8,037 |
| Dian Prosperity | 2016 | 8,037 |
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 MV Victoria of Wight on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy JuneGloom07, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| Lima II |
| 1975 |
| 8,033 |