![]() MV Geira approaching Gutcher, Yell from Fetlar. | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | MV Geira (II) |
Owner | Shetland Islands Council |
Operator | SIC Ferries |
Port of registry | Lerwick |
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Builder | Richard_Dunston, Hessle, Yorkshire |
Completed | 1988 |
In service | 2 July 1988 |
Refit | Once a year |
Identification |
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Status | In Service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ro-Ro Vehicle & Passenger Ferry |
Tonnage |
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Displacement | 335.7 |
Length | 30 m (98.4 ft) |
Beam | 9.0 m (29.5 ft) |
Draught | 2.612 m (8.6 ft) |
Depth | 3.85 m (12.6 ft) |
Decks | 4 (2 Passenger) |
Ramps | Bow and Stern ramps and a Bow Visor |
Installed power | 2 x Kelvin TASC8 @ 470kW each |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 10 knots |
Capacity |
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Crew | 4 |
MV Geira is a ro-ro passenger and car ferry that operates on the Bluemull sound service, [1] operated by SIC Ferries. She is based in Hamars Ness, on Fetlar. [2]
She is the second MV Geira built for SIC Ferries, the first being built in 1973 as a part of the first batch of inter-island ferries for the council. Out of the four vessels built around the same time, at different yards and to slightly different specification, MV Geira is closest in design to MV Fivla (II) .
MV Geira has 2 lanes on her car deck. Like most SIC Ferries her size she has a passenger lounge located beneath the car deck. [3]
Between 1988 and 2002, MV Geira operated on the Yell Sound route. She operated alongside MV Thora, and the then new MV Bigga .
From 2002, MV Geira operated on the Whalsay route alongside MV Linga . Where they had replaced MV Hendra, which replaced her again in 2005, and MV Thora on the route.
In 2005, when replaced by MV Hendra, she was transferred to the Bluemull Sound route, operating as the day vessel based out of Fetlar. Geira operates 6 days a week, however there was no second vessel on Bluemull on Saturdays until 2006 and from 2014 until 2025, when it was reintroduced.
Due to an issue with the Toft linkspan, she operated a special service between Vidlin and Ulsta, Yell from 29 April to 4 May 2010. [4]