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Earl Thorfinn: where the ship is now and the routes she runs

Orkney Ferries · Passenger ship · Flag: United Kingdom

Position on the map

58°59′N 2°58′W

Weather at Kirkwall

Forecast point 0.1 km from the ship’s position at 20:39.
TodaySun 25 OctTomorrowMon 26 Oct
Wind from NW 30–33 knBeaufort 7 · near galegusts 36 knwaves 1.7–1.8 m9 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 4.4 kmWind from W 12–30 knBeaufort 4–7 · near galegusts 36 knwaves 0.4–2.0 m9–12 °Cprecipitation up to 3.8 mm/hvisibility down to 2.0 km

Forecast issued 25 Oct, 15:08. It doesn’t tell whether a sailing will run: that is up to the operator.

Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Wind converted from m/s to knots and the Beaufort scale. Waves come from the nearest sea point of MET’s ocean model, which covers north-west Europe only; gusts only where MET forecasts them (the Nordic area).Weather data by Open-Meteo.com. Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Models ECMWF IFS and ECMWF WAM (© ECMWF, CC BY 4.0), 9 km grid: wind in knots converted to the Beaufort scale, temperature at sea level, precipitation (rain, showers and snow) as the hourly total shown for the hour it falls in, waves and mean wave period from the model’s nearest sea point, visibility shown only below 5 km; nearby places in the same grid cell share the same figures.Daily lows and highs, and the hour with the most precipitation, worked out by ferrywhere. Each figure comes from MET Norway where MET forecasts it, otherwise from Open-Meteo.

Routes served

From the sailings this ship was matched to in the last 30 days.

Particulars

From the data received for this ship.
IMO number
8902723
MMSI
232000760
Call sign
MLKP9
Length
45 m
Beam
11 m
Flag
United Kingdom
Ship type
Passenger ship

Orkney Ferries fleet

Ships linked to this operator by repeated matches with its sailings.

About Earl Thorfinn

Earl Thorfinn is a passenger ship in the Orkney Ferries fleet. She is 45 metres long and registered in the United Kingdom. Her IMO number is 8902723 and her MMSI 232000760.

In the last 30 days we linked her to sailings on 8 routes: Kirkwall → Shapinsay, Shapinsay → Kirkwall, Kirkwall → Rapness and 5 more. Orkney Ferries runs 54 routes in the timetables we follow, with ports in the United Kingdom.

The other Orkney Ferries ships we know are Earl Sigurd, Eynhallow, Hoy Head and Varagen.