Month: July 2009
The Dubrovnik (ex-Connacht, Duchesse Anne)
Since the sale of the Ivan Zajc earlier in the year, the Dubrovnik (ex-Duchesse Anne, Connacht) of Croatia’s state ferry company Jadrolinija is now rostered to sail on Split-Ancona sailings…
Farewell Doric Ferry, Kapetan Alexandros
Quietly, the Kapetan Alexandros A ex-Doric Ferry, last of the ships of the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company, left her lay up in Keratsini under tow of the tug Christos XIV…
Blast from the past: Townsend Car Ferries
Having looked at the Viking I (the first drive-through ferry to serve Britain) and the Norwind/Norwave (essentially the first ‘ro-paxes’), our attention now turns to Townsend’s Free Enterprise of 1962….
Picture of the week: Moby Vincent (ex-Stena Normandica) & Corsica Marina Seconda (ex-Stena Nautica)
Sister ships at Livorno – two of the quartet of Rickmers-built Stena ships from 1974/75 together at Livorno, the mainland port from which the two vessels compete on daily sailings…
A visit to the Masarrah (ex-St Columba, Stena Hibernia, Express Aphrodite)
Completed in 1977, the St Columba/Stena Hibernia became something of a legend on Irish Sea services through the 1980s and into the 1990s. Finally ousted by the arrival of the…
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