Newest Manx-registered ship takes to the seas

Wednesday, 26 July 2017 07:44

By Jason Roberts @ChpsChsGrvy

The latest ship to fly the Manx flag has left its shipyard, heading for Australia.

The Mona Manx is a cargo ship which joined the Island's shipping register yesterday.

She's 200 metres long and 32 metres wide and was built at Tsuneishi Shipbuilding's Zhoushan yard in Eastern China.

Head of the Island's ship registry, Dick Welsh, announced she'd joined the register yesterday morning on Twitter.

Lastest IOM ship leaving Tsuneishi's Zhoushan shipyard. Registered this morning and you can't get more Manx than that. @iomwhereyoucan pic.twitter.com/JOuruEJpD4
— Dick Welsh IoM Ship (@dick_welsh) July 25, 2017

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