Month: November 2009

Things Seen – November 2009

The paddle steamer Lincoln Castle is up for sale for £20,000. The last of the trio of ships built for the New Holland-Hull ferry service of the LNER, this ship,…

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Picture of the week: Moby Drea

Moby Drea (ex-Prince of Scandinavia, Tor Britannia) Previous image

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The ‘new’ Stena Navigator

. . . All 2009 & Stena Navigator images courtesy & © Scott Mackey Less than twelve months ago the newly refurbished Stena Caledonia re-entered service on Stena Line’s Stranraer-Belfast…

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Boulogne & The Canterbury

Visits to Boulogne-sur-Mer are always slightly haunting for me. This port town, which was massively damaged in the Second World War, rebuilt itself into the Channel port in the 1950s…

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Building the Maersk ‘D’ Class – Part Three

In this part of our review of the construction of Norfolkline’s ‘D’ Class, we move inside the Maersk Dunkerque in mid-2005 as the interiors of the ship were assembled at…

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Picture of the week: Al Mansour & Stena Atlantica

Al Mansour (ex-Stena Nordica (1975), Hellas, Stena Nautica, Reine Astrid, Moby Kiss) approaching Algeciras, Spain. She is passing the Aframax oil tanker Stena Atlantica (2006), namesake of the COMANAV ship’s…

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