MV Caedmon
MV Caedmon
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | MV Caedmon |
| Operator: | Wightlink |
| Builder: | Robb Caledon Shipbuilders, Dundee |
| Yard number: | 560 |
| Launched: | 3 May 1973 |
| Completed: | July 1973 |
| In service: | 1973 |
| Out of service: | 2009 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped May 2010 |
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| Class and type: | Car Passenger Ferry |
| Tonnage: | 764 GRT 175 DWT |
| Length: | 58.00 m (190.3 ft) |
| Beam: | 15.7 m (51.5 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.28 m (7.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2x 400bhp 6cyl Mirrlees Blackstone ERS6M turbocharged diesel engines driving Voith Schneider cycloidal propellers |
| Speed: | 10.0 knots |
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MV Caedmon was an Isle of Wight 'C' class ro-ro vehicle and passenger ferry. She operated for ten years on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route before transferring to Wightlink's route from Lymington to Yarmouth. After 37 years of service, she was broken up in 2010.
MV Caedmon was built in 1973 for Sealink by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd in Dundee, Scotland. The ship was named 'Caedmon' after the Anglo-Saxon poet Cædmon.
Caedmon served on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route for the first ten years of her life. For several weeks in 1979, she operated as a single-ended vessel after her prow was washed away during a storm.
When the Saint-class ships were put into service in 1983, Caedmon joined her sister ships, MV Cenwulf and MV Cenred, on the Lymington - Yarmouth route. All three passed to Wightlink after the privatisation of Sealink in 1984.
In 2008-09, on the introduction of three new Wight class ferries on the Lymington to Yarmouth route, the three 'C' class ships were withdrawn from service. They were sold for scrapping and initially laid up at Marchwood,[1], before being towed to Esbjerg, in Denmark. Cenred,Caedmon and then Cenwulf were dismantled at Smedegaarden in May 2010.[2]
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