Island Class Bow Loading Car Passenger

100 Pax Island Class Bow Loading Car / Passenger Ferry For Sale.
She is ‘Clyde Built’ of steel mostly in 8mm plate she has inch thick grounding plates welded to her keel and 2 inch grounding bars welded to her underside to help protect the hull during beaching/slipway operations. She was designed to be cut & extended if required. The bow ramp is operated hydraulically.

Length 50ft
Beam 20ft
Draft 4ft
GRT 42.50
Built 1990 Re-built 2012 Operating in the Bristol Channel UK

Steel construction, twin screw, brand new Perkins M185C 185hp less than 600hrs 3-: 1-reduction PRM 1000 gearboxes, hull speed 8.5kts. She has recently undergone extensive refit. Ultrasonic tests show that her hull is on original 8.00mm & 6.25mm thickness. The main ramp is operated hydraulically. Current use is mainly for foot passengers so main deck seats can be hinged up giving vehicular access 11ft x 22ft.

The saloon has a toilet, a store/locker, small tuck shop and seating for 24 passengers, small aft deck and stairs up to bridge deck. On the bridge deck there is buoyant apparatus and seating for another 20 odd passengers. The wheelhouse is very spacious with AIS, Chart Plotter, GPS, Radar, depth sounder, wind speed and direction indicator, two VHF Radios and three hand-held Radios, the steering is hydraulic. The compass has not long been swung and the deviation card is in date. There is a chart table and the visibility from the wheel-house is excellent.

Existing MCA V1a certificate is for 100 passengers and no vehicles (summer) & class V1 year round 50 passengers and 1 vehicle. If deck seats removed then she should be able to go back to her old certification of 100 passengers no vehicles or 50 passengers and 1 vehicle or 25 passengers and two vehicles for short runs.

This vessel was built so that she could easily be extended with an extra section welded in thus increasing her car capacity up to 4 or 6 cars. She would also be compliant for the work-boat code 60 miles offshore.

Our scope of work is changing and this vessel is under used on its present service, we are therefore testing the market. We were quoted around £1.2 Million to have one of these vessels built ten years ago a similar one has just been ordered for North Ireland at £2.8M we will consider offers.

We have a 4.5 ton Tico deck crane that we never fitted, we had a special seat made for it but it would have cost us about 15-20 passengers so we left it off. We will include this along with two substantial extension ramps, these could be welded together to form an extension flap to the ramp if required but that would be for the next owner to sort out.