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LOCH BHRUSDA

Built by McTay Marine in 1996

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IMO: 9129483
MMSI: 232002598
Call Sign: MVFP9

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

246GT

Deadweight

80DWT

Length Overall

35.4m

Beam

10.88m

Year Built

1996

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 1 h ago

Track · last 11 d

Position

57.007°N · 5.828°W

Speed

0.0 kn

Course

—

Status

Moored

Destination MALLAIGETA Jun 30, 04:30 PMDraught 1.4 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Mallaig — 1 h across 3 stays.

1
Mallaig1 h · 3×

Derived from the AIS track — runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.

Underway to

Mallaig

United KingdomAIS: MALLAIG

Distance

0 nm

sea route

ETA (computed)

—

at 8 kn

Speed now

7.7 kn

Under way using engine

Crew ETA

not reported

Resolved from the live AIS destination. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals); the computed ETA is at the vessel’s passage speed. A destination is the crew’s stated intent, not a confirmed fixture.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreMedium

64/ 100

Safety48

Compliance95

Environment48

Recent port calls

Mallaig
Jul 1, 2026
In port
Armadale, Isle of Skye
Jul 1, 2026
0.0 d
Mallaig
Jul 1, 2026
0.0 d
Armadale, Isle of Skye
Jul 1, 2026
0.0 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayFix 2 days ago

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed

7.7 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

2 days ago

Hull age

30 yr

Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull — we keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

60/100

Elevated riskLow confidence40% component coverage

Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

Dark-fleet signalno data

Hull age100

Flag register0

A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

Estimated

Capacity & Classification

Cargo capacity at draughtMedium confidence

~80t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 1.61 m · 0.8 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

1.12 m~42 t

1.2 m~48 t

1.28 m~55 t

1.36 m~61 t

1.44 m~67 t

1.52 m~74 t

1.61 m~80 t

Design draught looks implausible for this class and size — the figures above are anchored to it, so treat them with extra caution.

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (deadweight only) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

Load port

Discharge port

CargotFreight$/tFrom 80 DWT · ~9 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

MV Loch Bhrusda is a Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited water-jet propulsion ro-ro car ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne. After 11 years operating in the Outer Hebrides, she is now a Clyde-based relief small vessel.

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