A series of public events to welcome a new flagship ferry to serve the Isle of Man is to be live streamed at Douglas Head today. 

Afloat adds live events are also available online here to celebrate the new £78m Isle of Man Steam Packet's flagship Manxman will be publicly welcomed to the newbuild's home port today, 9 July.

It was last Sunday when the 1000-person capacity new ferry had arrived to Douglas Harbour, having completed a 12,000 nautical mile delivary voyage from a South Korean shipyard.

Before the Manxman arrived to the island, the newbuild had called to Southampton for further work to be completed on what is the largest ever ferry built for the Steam Packet.

The flagship is to operate the Douglas-Heysham route which since 1998 has been operated by the Ben-My-Chree. In addition on completion of the new terminal in Liverpool, Manxman will during the winter make weekend visits to Merseyside.

A live-stream of events via a screen located on Douglas Head will be made available for the public to watch proceedings. The ferry companies Managing Director, Brian Thomson is to make a speech on the quayside, before the traditional champagne bottle is broken onto Manxman’s bow.

An employee of the company for the over 20 years, Janice McDowall and Liverpool Terminal Manager has been given the honour of wishing Manxman well. 

ManxRadio has more including timings of events from this morning and throughout today.