{"id":706848,"date":"2026-07-23T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:56:10","slug":"isle-of-mans-main-ferry-out-of-service-for-longer-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706848\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Man&#8217;s main ferry out of service for longer than planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The back-up passenger vessel itself has suffered &#8220;technical issues&#8221; in recent days, leading to cancellations on the Heysham route on Sunday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Manxman had been due to return to service on Wednesday but no revised date has yet been confirmed by the Steam Packet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing director Brian Thomson said while it was recognised it would be &#8220;frustrating&#8221; for passengers, extending the ferry&#8217;s period in drydock was &#8220;necessary for safety and operational reliability&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Completing these additional works now will ensure the vessel can continue to provide a reliable and dependable service in the years ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government-owned ferry firm runs daily sailings between the island and Lancashire and Liverpool, along with regular sailings to Larne in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The back-up passenger vessel itself has suffered &#8220;technical issues&#8221; in recent days, leading to cancellations on the Heysham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-706848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}