The Smyril is a passenger and car ferry owned and operated by the Faroese transport company Strandfaraskip Landsins.

She is the largest ferry in the fleet and the fifth vessel to carry the name Smyril, which is the Faroese word for merlin.

[3] Strandfaraskip Landsins meets all arrivals and departures with buses to Vágur, Tvøroyri and Hvalba, while dial-a-ride services link the ferry to/from other villages, including Fámjin.

Smyril III could accommodate 300 passengers, but with the changes that were made in the infrastructure in the Faroes in the 1970s, the need for a larger vessel, a real car-ferry, grew to cover the community’s requirements.

Smyril IV was built in 1969 as MV Morten Mols for the Danish shipping company Mols-Linien and bought by Strandfaraskip Landsins in 1975.

Smyril Line, the ferry service between Denmark, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, which operates the vessel MS Norröna.