Cromarty Rose

Cromarty Rose
MV Cromarty Rose arriving at Nigg
MV Cromarty Rose arriving at Nigg
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Name: MV Cromarty Rose
Owner:

Seaboard Marine (Nigg) Ltd

since 2001: Cromarty Ferry Company
Route: 1987-2009 summers: Nigg - Cromarty
Builder:

MacCrindle Shipbuilding Ltd, Ardrossan

Engines: Ford/Lansing Marine, Dagenham[1]
Yard number: 439
Launched: 1986
Identification: MMSI 235076973
Status: in service
General characteristics
Class and type: ro-ro vehicle ferry
Tonnage: 28 GRT; 11 NT (net tonnage)
Length: 43 ft (13 m)
Beam: 19.7 ft (6.0 m)
Decks: 1
Ramps: bow
Installed power: Twin diesels 2 x M6cy 254bhp
Propulsion: 2scr
Speed: 8.5 knot
Capacity: 50 passengers; 2 cars
Crew: 2

MV Cromarty Rose a small vehicle ferry operating a summer service across the Cromarty Firth.

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History

MV Cromarty Rose is the smallest car ferry in the UK,[2] and the only ferry serving the Black Isle, crossing the Cromarty Firth between Nigg and Cromarty. She is a 50 passenger, 2 car ferry built in 1987 in Ardrossan, Scotland for Seaboard Marine (Nigg) Ltd who operated the Cromarty-Nigg service until 2001. After a tendering process, the contract passed to the Cromarty Ferry Company, who purchased the Cromarty Rose from her previous owners.[citation needed]

Service

Built for the Cromarty service, Cromarty Rose operated there from 1987 to 2009. Evening cruises were available for parties of between 10 and 50.[3]

Cromarty Rose became the world's smallest drive-in floating cinema in November 2008, with a showing of The Maggie, to launch the Cromarty Film Festival.[4]

There were some doubts about the future of the service in August 2009 following two engine failures and the resignation of the skipper over concerns about the maintenance standards of the ferry.[5]

In February 2010, Southampton Marine Services announced that they had won a £500,000 contract to build a new ferry for the Cromarty-Nigg service.[6] and Cromarty Rose sailed from Cromarty on 16 February 2010, bound for the Bristol Channel, to run a service to the island of Steep Holm.

The new ferry, Cromarty Queen, arrived in Cromarty on 10 October 2010, but was reported to be unlikely to enter service until 2011.[7][8]

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