MV Wight Light
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| Name: | MV Wight Light |
| Operator: | Wightlink |
| Route: | Yarmouth to Lymington |
| Builder: | Kraljevica, Croatia |
| Launched: | 26 January 2008 by 7 year old Nevie Pravdica |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,495 tonnes |
| Length: | 62 m |
| Beam: | 16 m |
| Draught: | 2.3 m |
| Capacity: | 360 passengers, 65 cars |
MV Wight Light is a car ferry currently under construction. She is due to be delivered to Wightlink on 14 July 2008 where she will be put into service ferrying cars and passengers between mainland England and the Isle of Wight.
[edit] Construction and launch
MV Wight Light was designed by naval architects Hart Fenton & Company. She was constructed at the Kraljevica shipyard in Croatia where she was launched on 26 January 2008,[1] the first of three vessels to be completed that were commissioned by Wightlink to replace their aging ferries MV Caedmon, MV Cenred and MV Cenwulf on the Yarmouth to Lymington route. Her sister ships will be MV Wight Sky and MV Wight Sun.
[edit] References
- ^ ALL`S WELD THAT ENDS WELD AS VESSEL SHRINKS Isle of Wight County Press, 1 Feb 2008
