Innherredsferja - Fleet

Fleet

• MF Innherredsferja was the company's first vessel. She was a single-direction vessel built at Moen & Sønns Båtbyggeri in Risør. She arrived at Levanger on 31 December 1957 and cost NOK 510,000, and was not equipped with radar. She was initially used for the cross-fjord route; from 1962 she was used as a reserve until put into service on the Skarnsund route in 1964. The ferry was sold for NOK 50,000 in 1968 to Agder, and later became a restaurant at Aker Brygge in Oslo.

• MF Innherredsferja II was ordered in 1960 and put into service on 1 August 1962. She was 27 metres (89 ft) long and 8.4 metres (28 ft) wide and cost NOK 1,062,000. She was built by Ulstein Mekaniske Verksted and had a larger saloon and place for sixteen cars or six trucks. The bridge covered the full width of the vessel and had radar and other contemporary equipment. From 1964, the ferry was put into service on the Levanger–Hokstad route. In 1981, she was made a reserve ferry, and sold in 2002.

• MF Skarnsund was the same size as Innherredsferja II and was put into service on the Skarnsund route in 1969. She had capacity for sixteen cars and was built in Kristiansund for NOK 1,555,000. In 1982, she was replaced by Mosvik and was leased to Namsos Trafikkselskap. She was sold for NOK 1 in 1988.

• MF Ytterøy cost NOK 10.5 million, had place for 30 cars and was bi-directional. Ytterøy weighed 300 tonnes and was 45 metres (148 ft) long. She was put into service on the Levanger–Hokstad route in February 1981. She became the reserve ferry following the purchase of Ytterøy II in 2002.

• MF Mosvik was bought in 1982. She dated from 1969 and had been in service near Bergen. Capacity was 24 cars and she was sold for NOK 1 million to Namsos Trafikkselskap in 1988.

• MF Skarnsund II was the same size as Ytterøy, had place for 30 cars and was bi-directional. She cost NOK 27 million and was in service from 1987 to 1991, when she was sold to Namsos Trafikkselskap for NOK 23 million. The 330 tonne vessel was built by Trønderverftet.

• MF Ytterøy II was bought used from Torghatten Trafikkselskap, where she had been named Torghatten. She was built in 1987 and cost Innherredsferja NOK 19.2 million. She was 56 metres (184 ft) long, had three saloons and place for 40 cars. She was sold in 2007, following the loss of the PSO bid.