The MS Lady of Mann was a side-loading car ferry

RORO

Roll-on/roll-off ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers or railroad cars that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels...

  built for and operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. She was built in 1976 by Ailsa Shipbuilding

Ailsa Shipbuilding Company

-History:The company was founded in 1885 by the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa.In 1902 the Ailsa yard fitted out the polar exploration ship Scotia for the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04...

  in Troon

Troon

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, Scotland

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. She was probably the most popular vessel to ever serve the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, serving the company for 29 years.

In 2005 she was converted to a RORO

RORO

Roll-on/roll-off ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers or railroad cars that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels...

 ferry and was operated by SAOS Ferries in Greece

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 under the name MS Panagia Soumela until she was reportedly scrapped in August 2011.
The vessel was ordered as the final vessel in a quartet which was the Manx Maid of 1962, the TSS Ben-my-Chree of 1966, Mona's Queen

MV Mary the Queen

Mary the Queen was a ferry in south-east Asia, mainly sailing between Manila and Boracay. Built in 1971 as Mona's Queen , between 1972 and 1990 she was operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from Douglas, Isle of Man.-History:...

 of 1972, and the Lady of Mann.

The vessel was ordered as the company's demand for car space was still in demand, so the result of this, a fourth car ferry, based on the design of the earlier Mona's Queen, the Lady of Mann arrived into company service in 1976, becoming the flagship of the fleet.