MV Midas

Ex Bore Sea

© Peter Therkildsen

Steel single screw motor vessel built in 1990 by Sietas GmbH & Co. KG Schiffswerft, Hamburg (Yard No 1027) as a Ro-ro ship.

Technical Data

• Length: 108.52 m (overall) 98.0 m (between perpendiculars)
• Breadth: 17.0 m
• Depth: 12.8 m
• Draught: 5.969 m
• Tonnage: 5873 gross/1762 net/4469 t deadweight
• Engines: 1 x Wärtsilä 9-cylinder 9R32D diesel.
• Power: 2960 kW/4020bHP
• Speed: 15.3 knots
• Capacity: 1030 lane meters
• Call Sign: OIZZ
• MMSI Number: 230186000
• IMO Number: 9002659
• DNV id Number: G32686
• Official Number: 55179
• Port of Registry: Turku/Finland 🇫🇮, Brando/Finland 🇫🇮
• Sister-Ship: Bore Star (1026)

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Current AIS Location

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History

September 21^st 1988: Contract date.

June 28^th 1989: Keel laid.

January 29^th 1990: Launched as BORE SEA for A/B Minicarriers O/Y, Godby.

March 9^th 1990: Completed for Oy Rettig Ab, Åbo, Finland.

March 1990: Oy Bore Line Ab services between Helsinki – Kotka – Terneuzen – Rotterdam – Chatham. 

©  Simonwp (01/05/1990) © Robert J Smith (Deptford, 13/06/1990)

January 1^st 1992  – January 9^th 1995: Chartered to Finncarriers Oy AB, Helsinki.

1995: Chartered to Transfennica for services Finland – Western Europe 

©  Simonwp (Kiel, 01/06/1995)

October 1995: Serviced Hango – Lubeck.

1996: Services Finland – UK – France.

January 1997: Services Rauma – Lubeck.

December 14^th 1999: Sold to Minicarriers AB, Brändö, Finland and renamed MIDAS.

December 1999: Chartered to UPM-Kymmene, Finland for services Rauma – Santander.

©  Simonwp (Kiel, 01/01/2000)

© Fotoflite (28/01/2000)

© Ken Smith (Gravesend, 17/02/2009)

© Frank Behrends (23/o6/2009) 

© Erwin Willemse (08/11/2010)

April 2012: Chartered to CMA CGM for West Indian routes as relief for MIMER.

November 2019: Arrived Landskrona.

December 10^th 2019: Chartered to St Peter Line for one service Stockholm – St Petersburg.

December 14^th 2019: Owing to the Covid pandemic, arrived Mariehamn for lay up.

July 7^th 2020 – October 24^th 2020: Chartered to Wagenborg Shipping Sweden for services Riga – Oxelösund.

October 2020: Chartered to Accordia Shipping, Florida USA.

November 2020: Services Florida – Haiti.

January 12th 2022:  Time-chartered to Caribbean Linked Shipping for a period of 3+3 months. The intended trade was New York – Haiti with trailers, cars, other roro cargo and containers.

May 16^th 2022: Arrived Fayard, Danmark for refit.

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May 2022: Chartered to Scandic Line for services Riga – Sweden. The charter contract was for 6+6+6 months. The main cargo was prefabricated construction elements for the Swedish building sector, trailers, mafis and other roro cargoes plus containers on weather deck.

June 1^st 2022 – October 20^th 2022: Services Riga – Södertälje.

October 2022: Scandic Line charter completed.

October 20^th 2022: One month charter to Condor Ferries and left Riga for Portsmouth.

November 19^th 2022: Left Portsmouth for Travemunde.

November 30^th 2022 – December 17^th 2022: Chartered to  Stena Line for services Travemunde – Liepaja.

December 2022 – December 31^st 2023: Chartered to TransProCon services Tyne – Zeebrugge.

January 2024 – June 2024: Chartered to DFDS with an option to extend the contract until 30th September 2024.

January 3^rd 2024: Arrived Dunkerque East.

© Julien Carpentier (Dunkerque, 24/02/2024)

© Julien Carpentier (Dunkerque, 06/03/2024)

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All information is believed to be correct and no responsibility is accepted for any errors or omissions. All items included in this article are subject to © copyright. We would like to take this opportunity of thanking: Frank Behrends, Julien Carpentier, Fotoflite, GodbyShipping, Simonwp, Ken Smith, Robert J Smith, Erwin Willemse and Andreas Wörteler for their assistance in producing this feature.

Article © Nigel Thornton and Ray Goodfellow (Dover Ferry Photos Group)