HIDDEBORG

ENI number:

02340910

Call sign:

PA5839

MMSI number:

244000369

Flag:

Netherlands

Port of registry:

Ameland

Registered owner:

Wagenborg Passagiersdiensten B.V., Delfzijl

Commercial manager:

Wagenborg Passagiersdiensten B.V., Delfzijl

Shipyard:

NG Shipyards B.V., Lauwersoog

Keel laid:

10-05-2024

Launch date:

00-12-2025

Seatrail date(s):

11-12-2025

In service:

19-11-2026

Route:

Holwerd-Nes / Lauwersoog-Schiermonnikoog

Length overall:

22.82 M

Beam:

6.09 M

Depth:

0.80 M

Passengers:

75

Main engine:

3x Volvo Penta D8-Stage V

Power:

894 kW

Ship history & data

Ship history data

2026: HIDDEBORG
NL 1 PA5839
Ameland / Netherlands
(00-01-2026)
Owner: Wagenborg Passagiersdiensten B.V., Delfzijl
Manager: Wagenborg Passagiersdiensten B.V., Delfzijl

Additional info

10-05-2024:Keel laid at Next Generation Shipyards B.V., Lauwersoog. Construction officially began with the symbolic placing of a coin by regular travellers Marin Visser and Arjan Iemhoff.
12-05-2025:Order officially issued.
00-12-2025:Launched.
11-12-2025:Sea trials on the Wadden Sea from Lauwersoog as “WADDENFERRY”.
23-12-2025:Sea trials on the Wadden Sea.
07-01-2026:Christined “HIDDEBORG” by Mrs. Afke Boven (Amelander journalist and TV presenter) at NG Shipyards B.V. in Lauwersoog.
The ship is named after Hidde Dirks Kat (1747–1824), the renowned whaling commander from Hollum on Ameland who survived the disastrous Arctic expedition of 1777, when his ship was crushed by ice off Greenland. Together with a handful of crew he reached the Greenland coast on foot and was rescued by the local Inuit population. Kat later described these events in his famous diary, which became one of the most remarkable survival accounts in Dutch maritime history.
08-01-2026:First arrival on Ameland.
19-01-2026:In service Lauwersoog-Schiermonnikoog as a replacement for the “ESONBORG” which is at the shipyard.


Latest data adjustment: 19-01-2026