MV St Catherine
St Catherine at Gunwharf Quays
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| History | |
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| Name: |
1983–2010: St Catherine 2010–present: GB Conte |
| Operator: |
1983–2010:  Delcomar |
| Port of registry: |
1983–2010: London 2010–present: Cagliari |
| Builder: | Robb Caledon Shipbuilders, Leith |
| Cost: | £5 million |
| Yard number: | 534 |
| In service: | 3 July 1983 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Roll-on/roll-off car ferry |
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| Length: | 77.05 m (252.8 ft) |
| Beam: | 17.22 m (56.5 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.48 m |
| Installed power: | 3x 850bhp Harland & Wolff-MAN 6ASL25 diesel engines driving Voith Schneider cycloidal propellers |
| Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
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1983–2010: St Catherine
1983–2010: 
Wightlink
1983–2010: London
MV St Catherine is a Roll-on/roll-off car and passenger ferry. She served the Wightlink crossing from Portsmouth to Fishbourne, Isle of Wight from 1983 to 2009. In 2010, she was sold to Delcomar and renamed GB Conte.
St Catherine was built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders, of Leith at a cost of £5 million. When she entered service on 3 July 1983, she was the biggest ferry ever in the Sealink Isle of Wight fleet, and the first able to carry more than 100 cars. Local papers reported that she made the other Isle of Wight ferries looked like toys in comparison to her.St Catherine remained the largest ship in the fleet only until her sister, MV St Helen entered service later in 1983.
St Catherine was present at the International Fleet Review in 2005, representing Wightlink with a number of her sisters. She was later laid up at Hythe in Hampshire.
In 2010 St Catherine was sold to Delcomar and sailed from Hythe to Sardinia as 'GB Conte' on 31 July 2010, with a crew of 11 on board. In March 2015, it was announced that sisters 'St Catherine' ('GB Conte') and 'St Helen' were being reunited, after spending five years apart, as 'St Helen' has also been sold to Delcomar, she has been repainted with their logo and renamed Anna Mur, she was reunited with her sister in September 2015.
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