Month: December 2012
MV Viking II – Past and Present
Ferries
4th June 2020
MV Viking II – Past and Present
MV Ocean Pearl, ex Earl William, Viking II - Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 1964 by Kaldnes Mekaniske Verksted A/S. Tonsberg, Norway, (Yard No 160) for Otto Thoresen…
MV Bretagne – Past and Present
Brittany Ferries (BAI)
25th September 2020
MV Bretagne – Past and Present
MV Bretagne - Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 1989 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France (Yard No 29) for Brittany Ferries, Roscoff.
MV Seven Sisters – Past and Present
DFDS
20th October 2020
MV Seven Sisters – Past and Present
MV Seven Sisters - Steel twin screw motor vessel, built in 2006 by De Hijos De J, Barreras De Vigo, Spain (Yard No. 1646), for Transmanche Ferries, Dieppe.
MV Pride of Bilbao – Past and Present
P&O Ferries
17th January 2021
MV Pride of Bilbao – Past and Present
MV SPL Princess Anastasia, ex Bilbao, Pride of Bilbao, Olympia - Steel twin screw motor vessel, built in 1986 by Oy Wärtsilä Ab, Turku, Finland (Yard No 1290) as a…
MV Saga Pearl II – Past and Present
Cruise Ships
25th May 2020
MV Saga Pearl II – Past and Present
MV Saga Pearl II, ex Quest for Adventure, Saga Pearl II, Astoria, Arkona, Astor - Steel twin screw motor vessel built by Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft ,Germany (Yard no 165) in…
MV Boudicca – Past and Present
Fred Olsen Cruise Lines
8th June 2021
MV Boudicca – Past and Present
MV Boudicca, ex Royal Viking Sky - Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 1973 by Oy Wartsila Ab, Helsingfors, Finland (Yard No 396) for Det Nordenfjeldske D/S, Trondheim under…
Farewell to a Pride……..
Maritime Features
16th December 2012
Farewell to a Pride……..
Introduction The Pride of Dover arrived in the Essex port of Tilbury from Dover on the 16th December 2010 having finally finished on the Dover-Calais service on the 15th December…
MV Normandy – Past and Present
Ferries
23rd July 2020
MV Normandy – Past and Present
MV ARV2, ex Normandy, Stena Normandy, St Nicholas, Prinsessan Birgitta, GV 909 - Steel twin screw motor vessel, built in 1981 by Götaverken Arendal Ab Göteborg (Yard No. 909), for Ab…
SS Autocarrier (I) – Past and Present
British Transport Commission (BTC)
6th December 2019
SS Autocarrier (I) – Past and Present
SS Autocarrier (I) - Steel twin screw steamer, she was Britain’s first railway-owned cross-Channel car ferry, built and engined by D. & W. Henderson, Glasgow, in 1931 (Yard No 912M)…