Ferry
MV Ulysses
Operated by Irish Ferries
Photo: LiverpoolFitzy2009 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#9,720
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#7
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About MV Ulysses
MV Ulysses is a roll-on/roll-off car ferry owned and operated by Irish Ferries. The ship was launched on 1 September 2000[3] at Aker Finnyards shipyard in Rauma, Finland and services the Dublin–Holyhead route.
The vessel has 12 decks, with a total height of 167.5 feet (51.1 m) from keel to mast. It has five vehicle decks, including a stowable mezzanine deck consisting of two swing decks, which are lowered to accommodate a greater number of vehicles up to 2 metres high. These swing decks are primarily used in holiday seasons when there is a much greater number of passenger vehicles. When launched she was the world's largest car ferry in terms of vehicle capacity.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9214991
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 209952000
- Call sign
- C4HP2
- Flag state
- Cyprus
- Port of registry
- Limassol
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Ferry
- Builder
- Aker Finnyards
- Yard number
- 429
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2001
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Irish Ferries
- Operator on record
- Irish Ferries
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 50,938
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 209.0 m
- Beam
- 31.2 m
- Draft
- 6.4 m
- Service speed
- 22.0 kn
- Passenger capacity
- 1,938
In context
How MV Ulysses compares
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 50,938 gross tons, MV Ulysses is the 9,720th 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 7th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which MV Ulysses is the 127th 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 22 ferrys flying the Cyprus flag, of which none is larger than MV Ulysses.
MV Ulysses was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 158th 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 209.0 m overall, MV Ulysses is 105.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 31.2 m and a draft of 6.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9214991 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9214991, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 9×2 = 141 — 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 ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise Barcelona | 2008 | 54,310 |
| Cruise Roma | 2008 | 54,310 |
| Tanit | 2012 | 52,645 |
| MV Ulysses (this ship) | 2001 | 50,938 |
| P&O Liberté | 2023 | 47,653 |
| Spirit of Britain | 2011 | 47,592 |
| Europalink | 2007 | 46,119 |
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Aker Finnyards
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
Other ships operated by Irish Ferries
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Ulysses (2000) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy LiverpoolFitzy2009 at English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.