LOCH SEAFORTH inward bound to Ullapool.
Name: MV Loch Seaforth, "Loch Shìophort"
Namesake: Loch Seaforth
Owner: Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd.
Operator: Caledonian MacBrayne
Port of registry: Glasgow
Route: Stornoway - Ullapool
Ordered: 22 June 2012
Builder:
Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft MBH and Co KG, Flensburg, Germany
Cost: £42 million yard number: 764
Launched: 21 March 2014
Christened: by Mrs Joan Murray
In service: 16 February 2015
Identification:
IMO number: 9665437
MMSI number: 235101635
Callsign: 2GYU4
General characteristics
Class and type: Passenger ship
Tonnage: 7800gt
Length: 116 metres (381ft)
Beam: 18.4 metres (60ft).
Propulsion:
2 x Wärtsilä 8L32 - 4000kws each, 3 x auxiliary 1600kws each, 1 x aux 700kws, 1 x stern thruster, 2 x bow thrusters 900kws each
2 x Jahnel-Kestermann PGVC-850-500C gearboxes
2 x Ni-Al-Bronze MAN Alpha CP propellers of 4.10m diameter
Speed: 19.2 knots (22.1 mph; service speed)
2 x hoistable mezzanine (car) decks
Capacity: Crew 43, 700 passengers, 143 cars