Finnjet
car ferry
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Finnjet
- IMO number
- 7359632
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- car ferry
- Gross tonnage
- 32,975
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 215 m
- Beam
- 25 m
- Year built
- 1977
- Builder
- Wärtsilä
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Finnjet
The GTS Finnjet was a cruiseferry, built in 1977 by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland for Finnlines traffic between Finland and Germany. At the time of her delivery, Finnjet was the fastest, longest and largest car ferry in the world, and the only one powered by gas turbines. At the point of her scrapping in 2008, she remained the fastest conventional ferry in the world, with a recorded top speed of 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h; 38.6 mph). Finnjet had remained out of service since 2005, laid up in Baton Rouge, Freeport and Genoa. Although she was purchased by Club Cruise in November 2007 and renamed MS Da Vinci in January 2008 for rebuilding into a cruise ship, the ship was sold for scrap in May 2008. Following the sale she was renamed MS Kingdom for her final voyage to the scrapyard in Alang, India where scrapping finally started in September 2008.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Finnjet now?
- Finnjet has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Finnjet?
- Finnjet is a car ferry, built in 1977 by Wärtsilä. The vessel is 215 m long with a beam of 25 m and has a gross tonnage of 32,975.
- Has Finnjet been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Finnjet appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).