MS Moby Tommy

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Piombino MS Tommy 001.JPG
Career
Name: Moby Tommy
Owner: Moby Lines
Port of registry:  Italy, Naples
Route: Piombino-Olbia and LivornoOlbia
In service: 2006
Identification: Call sign: ICCS
IMO number: 9221310
MMSI number: 247186700
Status: In service
Career
Name: Ariadne
Ariadne Palace
Owner: Minoan Lines
Port of registry:  Greece
Builder: Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.
Geoje, South Korea
Yard number: 1281
In service: 2002
Out of service: 2006
Fate: sold
Notes: [1]
General characteristics
Tonnage: 26,995 GT
Length: 212 m (696 ft)
Beam: 25 m (82 ft)
Draft: 6.6 m (22 ft)
Propulsion: 4 x Wärtsilä 12V46C
Speed: 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Capacity: 2,000 lane meters

MS Moby Tommy is a fast passenger roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) cruiseferry, currently owned by the Italy-based shipping company Moby Lines and operated on their Piombino and LivornoOlbia route. She was built in 2002 by Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Geoje, South Korea for the Greek company, Minoan Lines as MS Ariadne Palace.[2][3]

Sister ships[edit]

  • MS Oceaneus
  • MS Prometheus

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Moby Tommy (1689)". Shippingdatabase.com. http://www.shippingdatabase.com/ship.php?shipid=1689.
  2. ^ "Simplon Postcards - Moby Tommy". 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2010. 
  3. ^ "The Ferry Site - M/F Moby Tommy". 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.