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MV Graemsay

small passenger ferry operated by Orkney Ferries

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ16224100 ↗
Source-derived summary

MV Graemsay is a small passenger ferry operated by Orkney Ferries.

History

MV Graemsay was built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon in 1996.

Has been extended by 4.5m [1]

Service

MV Graemsay is normally allocated to the South Isles - Graemsay & North of Hoy Service.

Editorial summary

“MV Graemsay” enters the record as small passenger ferry operated by Orkney Ferries. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Graemsay, small and passenger can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Graemsay, small and passenger.
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“MV Graemsay” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Graemsay, small and passenger provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16224100. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “MV Graemsay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.