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RED FALCON

Built by Ferguson Marine in 1994

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IMO: 9064047
MMSI: 235014365
Call Sign: MSJF3

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

4,128GT

Deadweight

606DWT

Length Overall

93.22m

Beam

18m

Draught

2.7m

Year Built

1994

Overview

About This Vessel

MV Red Falcon is a vehicle and passenger ferry operated by Red Funnel from Southampton to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. It was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow. Launched in 1993, she entered service in 1994, being bought new by Red Funnel along with sister ship Red Osprey and as such, has operated the same regular route throughout her life. Between January and March 2004 she underwent modifications by Remontowa in Gdańsk, Poland to increase vehicle capacity by 80 and allow a greater passenger capacity. This involved the lengthening of the ship by 9.6 m (31 ft).

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 2 min ago

Track · last 14 d

Position

50.874°N · 1.386°W

Speed

12.9 kn

Course

138°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination SOTON-COWESETA Aug 27, 03:30 PMLaden · 2.4 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Port of Southampton — 15 d across 456 stays.

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Port of Southampton15 d · 456×

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

Port of Southampton
Sep 1, 2026
0.0 d
Cowes Harbour
Sep 1, 2026
0.0 d
Port of Southampton
Aug 31, 2026
0.3 d
Cowes Harbour
Aug 31, 2026
0.0 d
Port of Southampton
Aug 31, 2026
0.0 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix within the last day

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast — parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed

0.0 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

32 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

50 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).

Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Port of Southampton
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 9 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 15 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 29 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m
Marchwood
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 2.4→2.4 m

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 · 12.8 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.

Marchwood· United Kingdom
6.4 days
22 calls · 7 h avg
Port of Southampton· United Kingdom
6.3 days
30 calls · 5 h avg

Based on 52 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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