MV Fundy Rose career to have a deadweight tonnage of between 1,410 and 1,857 DWT. She is long, with a beam of and a draft of . Her main propulsion power comes from four Wärtsilä NSD 9L32 engines, which generate apiece and drive two propeller that giver her a service speed of and a maximum speed of . In Greek service she had a passenger capacity of about 1,500; as configured for Canadian service she can carry 1,317 passengers. MV Fundy Rose MV "Fundy Rose" is a RORO passenger ship owned by the Government of Canada, which entered service with Bay Ferries in
Partridge Island (Nova Scotia) kilometres of water are forced through a channel that is barely five kilometres (3.1 miles) wide, raising and lowering the water levels inside the Minas Basin by 12 to 15 metres (39 to 49 feet). Tidal currents in the channel have been calculated to reach speeds of nearly 20 kilometres per hour (12.4 miles per hour). Bay of Fundy tides are the highest in the world and the highest of all occur in the Minas Basin. Several factors affect the Fundy tides including water depth and the shape of the coastline. Both contribute to a natural Fundy tidal oscillation, or