Our Ferry

DSC CATAMARAN IBISCUS

Our Catamaran

DSC IBISCUS is one of the most famous catamaran passenger ferries through the years .
Its latest activity was in North Sea as a Whale Watching Passenger Ferry under the name of MAAN DOLPHIN.

Our company took over the catamaran on March 2020 and renamed it to “IBISCUS”, “IBISCUS” is the official Flower of Rhodes Island.

 

DSC IBISCUS

Was built by FJELSTRAND – Norway and it is a state of the art Catamaran and combines the latest Technology and Seakeeping to ensure

Safety – Speed and Comfort.

1986, Fjellstrand AS, Omastrand, Norway

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Aluminium (Extra strong build)

38.80 mLBP36.00 mBreadth 9.40 m

4.02 mDraft 2.23 m

400 tonnes

367NRT124

Furuno 3cm radar, 10 cm radar, MK22 Gyro Compass (2 bridge wing repeaters), Simrad 70 Autopilot, Echosounder, VDR, ECDIS, Benmarine Speed Log, Furuno 170 DGPS, Kongsberg AIS, Navigation lights (full suite and aux)

Sailor 6222 VHF DSC 1, Furuno VHF DSC 2, Sailor MF/HF DSC Radio, Furuno Navtex, Purple finder LRIT,

2 x Jotron EPIRBs, Jotron SART, Jotron handheld GMDSS, 2 x additional handheld GMDSS, various handheld walkie-talkie radios, GMDSS battery charger

2 x MTU 16V 396 TB 63 (1310 KW @ 1650 rpm) (1540 BHP @ 1940 rpm)