Varagen: where the ship is now and the routes she runs
Orkney Ferries · Passenger ship · Flag: United Kingdom
In port at Kirkwall.
Position on the map
58°59′N 2°58′W
Weather at Kirkwall
| TodaySun 25 Oct | TomorrowMon 26 Oct |
|---|---|
| Wind from NW 30–34 knBeaufort 7–8 · galegusts 39 knwaves 1.7–1.9 m9 °Cprecipitation up to 1.2 mm/hvisibility down to 4.4 km | Wind 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
Particulars
- IMO number
- 8818154
- MMSI
- 232000550
- Call sign
- MHBM9
- Length
- 50 m
- Beam
- 11 m
- Flag
- United Kingdom
- Ship type
- Passenger ship
Orkney Ferries fleet
- Earl SigurdIn port at Kirkwall
- Earl ThorfinnIn port at Kirkwall
- Hoy HeadIn port at Longhope
- EynhallowNo recent position
About Varagen
Varagen is a passenger ship in the Orkney Ferries fleet. She is 50 metres long and registered in the United Kingdom. Her IMO number is 8818154 and her MMSI 232000550.
In the last 30 days we linked her to sailings on 7 routes: Kirkwall → Shapinsay, Kirkwall → Rapness, Rapness → Kirkwall and 4 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 Hoy Head.