Hoy Head: where the ship is now and the routes she runs
Orkney Ferries · Passenger ship · Flag: United Kingdom
Last known position: nothing newer received.
Position on the map
58°48′N 3°12′W
Weather at Longhope
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from W 40–43 knBeaufort 8–9 · strong galegusts 59 knwaves 7.1–7.5 m9–10 °Cprecipitation up to 1.0 mm/hvisibility down to 3.8 km | Wind from W 14–38 knBeaufort 4–8 · galegusts 54 knwaves 1.6–6.8 m9–13 °Cprecipitation up to 3.0 mm/hvisibility down to 1.9 km |
Forecast issued 25 Oct, 12:09. 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
Punctuality of this ship
50 sailings · 30 days · average delay 2 min
- On time
- 92%
- 46
- Late
- 8%
- 4
- On time (up to 5 min): 46 (92%)
- 5–15 min late: 3 (6%)
- 15–30 min late: 1 (2%)
- Half of the departures leave within 1 min of the scheduled time.
Particulars
- IMO number
- 9081722
- MMSI
- 235018919
- Call sign
- MSQD2
- Length
- 50 m
- Beam
- 10 m
- Flag
- United Kingdom
- Ship type
- Passenger ship
Orkney Ferries fleet
- Earl SigurdIn port at Kirkwall
- Earl ThorfinnIn port at Kirkwall
- VaragenIn port at Kirkwall
- EynhallowNo recent position
About Hoy Head
Hoy Head is a passenger ship in the Orkney Ferries fleet. She is 50 metres long and registered in the United Kingdom. Her IMO number is 9081722 and her MMSI 235018919.
In the last 30 days we linked her to sailings on 5 routes: Houton → Lyness, Lyness → Houton, Houton → Flotta and 2 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, Earl Thorfinn, Eynhallow and Varagen. Over the last 30 days we measured 50 of her departures; 92% were on time.