Passenger or Cargo Ship 🇬🇧 United KingdomActive

OLDENBURG

Built by Rolandwerft in 1958

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IMO: 5262146
MMSI: 234990000
Call Sign: GFTN

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

295GT

Deadweight

72DWT

Length Overall

43.57m

Beam

7.8m

Draught

1.8m

Year Built

1958

Overview

About This Vessel

MS Oldenburg is a British passenger ferry serving the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel. The Oldenburg was named after the former grand duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, and launched on 29 March 1958 in Bremen. On 6 August she was delivered to Deutsche Bundesbahn Schiffsdienst Wangerooge, and used for a ferry service between the mainland and the Frisian island of Wangerooge. She was first chartered in winter of 1975 by Reederei Warrings for duty-free shopping cruises in East Frisia. In 1982 she was sold to Harle-Reederei Warrings in Carolinensiel, Lower Saxony, Germany. In November 1985 she was sold to The Lundy Co. Ltd. to replace Lundy's transport boat, the Polar Bear. After a refurbishment at Appledore Shipbuilders including fitting a new crane and bringing the ship up to modern British shipping standards, she began her journeys for passengers and supplies to the island of Lundy in May 1986, under the management of the owner's parent, Landmark Trust. In 1999, the Lundy Co. Ltd received a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant which was used to upgrade the ship with two new 6-cylinder Cummins KT19-M425 diesel engines, each capable of producing 317 kW (425HP) at 1800RPM, increasing her top speed from 11.5 to 12.5 knots. The grant was also used to construct a new aft canopy and undertake a refurbishment programme, bringing the total passenger capacity count to 267.

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 5 h ago

Track · last 14 d

Position

51.131°N · 4.379°W

Speed

10.3 kn

Course

296°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination LUNDYETA Jul 9, 06:30 PM

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Bideford: 10 d across 10 stays.

1
Bideford10 d · 10×

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.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Recent port calls

Bideford
Oct 12, 2026
0.6 d
Bideford
Sep 28, 2026
1.6 d
Bideford
Sep 15, 2026
0.6 d
Bideford
Sep 13, 2026
1.5 d
Bideford
Sep 12, 2026
1.0 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Slow steamingFix within the last day

Under way but in the slow band: effective capacity voluntarily withdrawn.

Speed

2.9 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

68 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.

Port calls

29 recent · AIS-detected

Arrivals, time in port and the load/discharge inferred from the draught change, detected from AIS track history. An open call means the vessel is still in port (no departure observed yet).

Bideford
op. unknown
In port since
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 39 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 36 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 22 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 2.6 days in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 38 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 12 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 23 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 29 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 12 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 25 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Ilfracombe
op. unknown
→ · 13 h in port· medium confidence
Ilfracombe
op. unknown
→ · 13 h in port
Ilfracombe
op. unknown
→ · 9 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 4 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 19 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 38 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 39 h in port
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port
Ilfracombe
op. unknown
→ · 17 h in port· medium confidence
Ilfracombe
op. unknown
→ · 20 h in port· medium confidence
Bideford
op. unknown
→ · 14 h in port

Method: each call is a run of fixes inside a port’s geofence confirmed by a stop (or an AIS gap); load/discharge is the sign of the draught delta over the call. Indicative: arrivals before our AIS history began read from the first observation.

Where it waits

2 ports · 25.0 days total

Time-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history: the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.

Bideford· United Kingdom
22.0 days
23 calls · 23 h avg
Ilfracombe· United Kingdom
3.0 days
5 calls · 14 h avg

Based on 28 completed calls observed since . Open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

74/100

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

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull age100

Flag register50

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.

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