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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Abegweit1996.jpg) MV Abegweit at Cape Tormentine
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| History | |
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| Name | MV Abegweit |
| Namesake | Her predecessor MV Abegweit which was retired in 1982. Epekwit'k or Abegweit is the Mi'kmaq Nation's name for Prince Edward Island. |
| Owner | Marine Atlantic |
| Operator | Marine Atlantic |
| Builder | Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry Dock of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Yard number | 1136 |
| Launched | 20 February 1982 |
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| Homeport | Borden, PEI-Cape Tormentine, NB |
| Identification | IMO number: 7927843 |
| Fate | Removed from service in 1999 and scrapped in 2004. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | RoRo ferry |
| Displacement | 12,000 tons |
| Length | 401 ft |
| Beam | 70 ft |
| Draught | 20 ft |
| Ice class | 1A Super Baltic |
| Installed power | 6 main engines Ruston V16 diesel driven gear boxes |
| Speed | 18 knots |
| Crew | 34 |
MV Abegweit were icebreaking railway, vehicle, and passenger ferries which operated across the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait, connecting Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick. There were two vessels named Abegweit that serviced this route between 1947 and 1997.
The word Abegweit is derived from the Mi'kmaq word for Prince Edward Island, Epekwit'k, meaning "cradled (or cradle) on the waves."