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Operated by Irish Ferries
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Largest in this registry
#15,601
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ro-ro
#73
of 799 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#3
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS James Joyce is a fast Ro-Pax cruiseferry operated by Irish Ferries; on the Dublin to Holyhead route. She was built as Star at Aker Finnyards Helsinki Shipyard, Finland for Tallink and entered service on their Helsinki to Tallinn service on 12 April 2007. She was sold to Irish Continental Group in May 2025 after a brief 20-month charter with Irish Ferries between 2023 and 2025.
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 36,249 gross tons, Oscar Wilde is the 15,601st 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 6.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 73rd by tonnage — larger than 91% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Oscar Wilde is the 328th 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 28 ro-ros flying the Cyprus flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
Oscar Wilde was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 512th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 27 vessels to Aker Finnyards, with a median tonnage of 34,231 GT, delivered between 1998 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 186.0 m overall, Oscar Wilde is 61.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 27.7 m and a draft of 6.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9364722 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9364722, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 6×5 + 4×4 + 7×3 + 2×2 = 152 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ro-ros
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Saint-Malo | 2024 | 36,965 |
| Festos Palace | 2002 | 36,825 |
| Tinker Bell | 2001 | 36,468 |
| Oscar Wilde (this ship) | 2007 | 36,249 |
| MS Finlandia | 2001 | 36,093 |
| MS Dover Seaways | 2006 | 35,923 |
| MS Delft Seaways |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
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.

Independence of the Seas
2008 · 155,889 GT · The Bahamas

Freedom of the Seas
2006 · 154,407 GT · The Bahamas
Liberty of the Seas
2007 · 154,407 GT · The Bahamas

Color Magic
2007 · 75,156 GT · Norway

MS Galaxy I
2006 · 48,915 GT · Sweden

Baltic Princess
2008 · 48,915 GT · Finland
Viking XPRS
2007 · 35,918 GT · Estonia

Superspeed 1
2008 · 34,231 GT · Norway
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS James Joyce on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy No machine-readable author provided. Kjet assumed (based on copyright claims)., reused under CC BY-SA 2.5.
| 2006 |
| 35,293 |