MV Cromarty Rose arriving at Nigg
MV Cromarty Rose arriving at Nigg
History
United Kingdom
NameCromarty Rose
Owner
  • Seaboard Marine (Nigg) Ltd
  • since 2001: Cromarty Ferry Company
Route1987-2009 summers: Nigg - Cromarty
Builder
Yard number439
Launched1986
IdentificationMMSI 235076973
Statusin service
General characteristics
Class and typero-ro vehicle ferry
Tonnage28 GT; 11 NT
Length43 ft (13 m)
Beam19.7 ft (6.0 m)
Decks1
Rampsbow
Installed powerTwin diesels 2 × M6cy 254bhp
Propulsion2scr
Speed8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Capacity50 passengers; 2 cars
Crew2

MV Cromarty Rose was the vehicle ferry serving the Nigg-Cromarty route across the Cromarty Firth, providing a summer only service from 1987 to 2009.

History

MV Cromarty Rose was one of the smallest car ferries 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 vessel 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.

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]

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.[5] 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 and Flat Holm . She was renamed Westward Ho by her current owner. She is operated by MW Marine.

The replacement vessel, Cromarty Queen, arrived in Cromarty on 10 October 2010, and commenced the summer service in 2011.

References

  1. ↑ "Cromarty Rose". Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Cromarty Ferry". Cromarty Ferry. 18 October 2009.
  3. ↑ "Evening Cruises". Cromarty Ferry. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  4. ↑ "World's smallest drive-in (floating) cinema". Cromarty Film Festival. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  5. ↑ "New Cromarty ferry to be built by SMS". This is Hampshire. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
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