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MS Superfast VII

History
Name: Stena Superfast VII
Owner:
Operator:
  • 2002–06: Superfast Ferries
  • 2006–11: Tallink
  • 2011 onwards Stena Line
Port of registry:
Route: Belfast–Cairnryan
Builder: HDW, Kiel, Germany
Yard number: 357
Launched: 18 November 2000
Acquired: 8 May 2001
Maiden voyage: 17 May 2001
In service: 17 May 2001
Identification:
Status: In service
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Superfast VII class fast ropax ferry
Tonnage: 30,285 GT
Displacement: 5,915 t DWT
Length: 203.90 m (669 ft)
Beam: 25.00 m (82 ft)
Height: 40.00 m (131 ft)
Draught: 6.60 m (21 ft 8 in)
Decks: 10
Ice class: 1 A Super
Installed power:
Propulsion:
  • 2 propellers
  • 3 bow thrusters
  • 1 stern thruster
Speed: 30.4 kn (56.30 km/h)
Capacity:
  • 626 passengers
  • 661 cars
  • 1,920 lane meters
Crew: 63
General characteristics (in Stena Service)
Class and type: Superfast VII class fast ropax ferry
Length: 203.3 m (667 ft)
Beam: 25.42 m (83 ft 5 in)
Deck clearance: 4.7 m, 5.2 m on central 4 lanes of the upper vehicle deck
Installed power:
  • 4 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer NSD ZA V40S main engines producing 11,500 kW each(total 46,000 kW (62,000 shp)), coupled to 2 × 5.2 m KaMeWa propellers via 2 × Schelde dual input single output gearboxes
  • 3 × MAN B&W 8L28/32H, producing a total of 1,848 kW each @ 720 rpm
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 5.2 m KaMeWa propellers
  • 3 × 925 kW KaMeWa bow thrusters
  • 1 × 1,350 kW stern thruster
Speed: 20 kn (37.0 km/h) - 22 kn (40.7 km/h)
Capacity:
  • 1,200 passengers
  • 661 cars or 110 trailers (or a mix of both)
Notes: Entered Stena service along with her sister Stena Superfast VIII on 21/11/2011.

MS Stena Superfast VII is a fast Ro-Pax ferry owned by the Estonian ferry company Tallink and chartered to Stena Line operated on their service between Belfast and Cairnryan. Built in 2001 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel, Germany for Attica Group's subsidiary Superfast Ferries, she was sold to her current owners in 2006.

Stena Superfast VII was the first ship in a series of four ice-classified ropax ferries built by HDW in Kiel for Superfast Ferries' Baltic Sea services. She was ordered in 1998, alongside sister ship MS Superfast VIII, launched from dry dock on 8 November 2000 and was delivered to Superfast Ferries on 8 May 2001.

Following delivery the Superfast VII visited Rosyth, Scotland and Helsinki, Finland where she was displayed to the public. She inaugurated Superfast Ferries' Hanko (Finland) – (Germany) service on 17 May 2001. On 18 January 2002 a pregnant passenger went into labour on board while the Superfast VII was en route from Hanko to Rostock. Taking the ship to Karlshamn, Sweden where the expecting mother could be taken to a hospital was considered, but in the end the decision was made to bring a midwife on board by a pilot boat. The child had already been born by the time the midwife arrived on board, with the captain's wife assisting in childbirth.


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