MV ''Wight Light'' is a car and passenger ferry built for the British ferry operator

Wightlink Wightlink is a ferry company operating routes across The Solent between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in the south of England. It operates car ferries between Lymington and Yarmouth, and Portsmouth and Fishbourne and a fast passenger-only ...

. She is in service between mainland

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and the

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island of England. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents, the Isle of ...

History

''Wight Light'' was designed by naval architects Hart Fenton & Company and constructed at the

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shipyard in

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. She was launched on 26 January 2008, the first of three vessels commissioned by Wightlink to replace their ageing ferries ''Caedmon'', ''Cenred'' and ''Cenwulf'' on the

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Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a car ferry service operated by Wightlink. It is within the ...

route. Her sister ships are ''Wight Sky'' and ''Wight Sun'', both of which are now in service. ''Wight Light'' was due to be delivered in late August 2008 arriving in Lymington late on 1 September 2008. She entered service on 25 February 2009.

Service

''Wight Light'' is in service between

and

. On 12 March 2009 ''Wight Light'' was taken out of service for repairs to her hydraulic ramp. 35-year-old ''Cenred'' was brought back from retirement. On 24 November 2014, Wightlink announced that they were going to change the way they configure their fleet in response to both falling demand on their Western Solent Lymington-Yarmouth ferry service and the need to find a replacement for their oldest vessel in their fleet, MV ''St Helen''. / It was decided to transfer the ''Wight Light'' to the Portsmouth-Fishbourne route to replace the ''St Helen''. Both sea and berthing trials were carried out in January–February and March 2015, allowing for the first commercial sailing of ''Wight Light'' on the Portsmouth-Fishbourne service on Friday 27 March 2015. ''Wight Light'' has since returned to operating the Yarmouth-Lymington route.

Footnotes

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