TSMV Shanklin
Shanklin in Portsmouth Harbour | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name |
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| Operator |
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| Builder | William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton |
| Yard number | 1452 |
| Launched | 22 February 1951 by Mrs V. M Barrington-Ward |
| In service | 18 June 1951 |
| Out of service | 3 August 1981 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5321772 |
| Fate | Sank. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Twin Screw Motor Vessel Passenger Ferry |
| Tonnage | 965 |
| Length | 200 feet (61 m) |
| Beam | 46 feet (14 m) |
| Draught | 7 feet (2.1 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 x Sulzer 8 MD 32 two-stroke 950 bhp diesel engines |
| Speed | 14.4 knots |
| Capacity | 1377 (summer) 1151 (winter) |
| Crew | 33 |
TSMV Shanklin was a passenger ferry that operated between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight between 1951 and 1980. Renamed Prince Ivanhoe she went on to become a pleasure cruiser in the Bristol Channel but in 1981 sank off the Welsh coast on her first season.