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
Bay of Fundy various rivers which empty into it. Near the mouth of the Saint John River, where it passes through the city of Saint John, is the famous Reversing Falls. Here the changing tide causes alternating strong upriver and downriver flows several times a day as the tidal cycle changes. A narrow granite gorge and rocky bottom heavily restricts waterflow and creates strong rapids that flow upriver at high tide, and downriver at low tide. Rivers in the upper Bay of Fundy have a smaller flow-rate than the Saint John, and a shallower slope. As a result, extensive mud flats are deposited