SIC Ferries

The Bressay Ferry at Lerwick

Services of the SIC Ferries are:[2]

• Bluemill service linking the North Isles at Gutcher, Yell; Belmont, Unst; and Hamars Ness, Fetlar.
• Bressay service to the isle of Bressay from Lerwick on the Mainland.
• Fair Isle service to the isle of Fair Isle from Grutness on the Mainland.
• Foula service to the isle of Foula from Walls on the Mainland.
• Out Skerries service to the isle of Out Skerries from Vidlin, Laxo and Lerwick on the Mainland
• Papa Stour to the isle of Papa Stour from West Burrafirth on the Mainland.
• Whalsay service to the isle of Whalsay from Laxo on the Mainland.
• Yell service to the North Isle of Yell from Toft on the Mainland.

Fleet of the SIC Ferries are:

• MVs Dagalien and Daggri both built in Gdańsk, Poland. They can both carry 145 passengers and 35 cars and are both normally used on the Yell service.
• MVs Bigga and Geira was built by Dunstons, Hestle and Millers, St Monance and can carry 60 passengers and 15 cars and are both used on the Bluemull services.
• MV Filla was built by Northern Shipbuilders in Gdańsk and can carry 123 passengers and 25 cars is normally used on the Skerries route.
• MV Fivla was built by Ferguson-Alisa and is now used as a stand-by vessel. She can carry 15 cars and 45 passengers.
• MV Good Shepherd IV was built by Millers, St Monance and can carry 2 cars (craned on)[3] and 25 passengers and is normally used on the Fair Isle service.
• MVs Hendra and Linga were built by McTay Marine, Bromborough and Stocznia Polnocna, Gdańsk, Poland and are both normally used on the Whalsay service. They can carry 23 cars and 132 passengers.
• MV Leirna was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow and is used on the Bressay service. She can carry 125 passengers and 20 cars.
• MV Snolda was built by Sigbjorn Iversen, Norway and is normally used on the Papa Stour service. It can carry 1 cars and 5 passengers
• MV Thora was built by Thorshavnor Skipasmidja, Faroe and is normally used as a stand-by vessel and the Papa Stour service. She is one of the oldest ferries bought in the late 1970s. She is now in Jersey. As of December 2019

• SIC Ferries Official Site