M/S Nordan
Technical details:
Building material: Aluminium hull
Length: 30.97 m
Beam: 6.16 m
Draught: 1.4 m
Propulsion: 2 x Scania DI 16; total 1,500 hp, 1,102 kW
Speed: 20 knots
Capacity: 223 passengers
General history and facts:
”M/S Nordan” in a passenger ship built in 1970 by Marinteknik Verkstads AB for Waxholms Ångfartygs AB, Vaxholm, Sweden. Very soon afte the delivery, on 21stof May 1970 it entered service as a commuter vessel in the Stockholm's archipelago. New Volvo Penta TMD 121C engines were installed in 1988. Several years later, in 1992 it was sold to Jönköpings municipality and the name changed to “Madame Tingley”. It was intended to transport passengers in the lake Vättern. In 1993 it was enlarged to the current size with increase in tonnage and put on the route Gränna - Visingsö. In 2012 it was sold to Trafikverket Färjerederiet, Vaxholm. In 2014 it has been renamed to the original name, M/S Nordan. Sold in 2015 to Ingmarsö Sjötjänst AB with the new home port at Ingmarsö. In 2017, the four main engines were exchanged with the current two, but more powerful Scania DI 16.
