MV Wight Sun
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | MV Wight Sun |
| Operator: | Wightlink |
| Route: | Yarmouth to Lymington |
| Builder: | Kraljevica, Croatia |
| Yard number: | 552 |
| Launched: | TBA |
| In service: | Summer 2009 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,495 tonnes |
| Length: | 62 m |
| Beam: | 16 m |
| Draught: | 2.3 m |
| Capacity: | 360 passengers, 65 cars |
The MV Wight Sun is a new vessel currently under construction for the British ferry company Wightlink. She will enter service with the company in late summer 2009.
The vessel will join the two other vessels in the Wight Class fleet, which will both have come into service summer 2008. this will result in the scrapping of the three vessels currently running the Lymington - Yarmouth route.
