Strait Feronia
Strait Feronia in Cook Strait | |
| History | |
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| Name | Strait Feronia |
| Owner | StraitNZ |
| Operator | StraitNZ |
| Port of registry | |
| Route | Wellington to Picton |
| Builder | Cantiere Navale Visentini, Italy |
| Launched | 7 December 1996 |
| Completed | 1997 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 21,856 GT |
| Length | 186.0 m (610 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 25.60 m (84 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 5.55 m (18 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power | 2 x Wärtsilä 8R46 diesel engines |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21.5 knots (40 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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Strait Feronia was a passenger, freight and vehicle or ROPAX ferry owned and operated by StraitNZ between 2015 and 2025. The ship is a twin of MS Liverpool Seaways. The vessel was initially named Mersey Viking and saw service in the Irish Sea, eventually being renamed Dublin Viking and then Dublin Seaways. The vessel was acquired by the Stena Line and renamed Stena Feronia and saw service between Tangier and Algericas and later between Kiel and Gothenburg. From 2015 until 2025 she operated on StraitNZ's inter-island service in New Zealand, and was then sold to Egypt as Pan Lily.