Irish Ferries' largest, and the largest ferry to visit Falmouth's no.2 dry dock is the 208m long Ulysses. She arrived Thursday January 23rd, and is in the Queen Elisabeth dry dock, stern first.
Built in 2001 by Aker Finnyards, she held the title of largest ferry, for a short period, prior to the Pride of Rotterdam. She is 50,938 grt.
BUT.....
Even though the Pride of Rotterdam/Hull are larger in tonnage by 10,000 tonnes, the Ulysses has 4,050 metres of vehicle lanes, compared with the Pride's 3,400 metres based on this, she still holds the title of Largest ferry in the World- Thank you to Paul O'Brien for pointing this out.
Thank you to Aiden McCabe for sending in these images.
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