Author: hhvferry

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….

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…

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…

Pont-l’Abbe. Click for larger image.

Continuing our look at Britain’s pioneering 1960s car ferries, in this ‘Blast from the past’, attention falls on the B&I Line and their new ‘Motorway’ service between Liverpool and Dublin,…

In the first part of our look at the construction of the Maersk ‘D’ class, we reviewed the three vessels at various stages as they grew from the bottom up…

The Stena Saga, seen from the passing Stena Jutlandica off Gothenburg, making her one weekly round trip to the latter port. April 2004. Last week’s picture

Norwind & Norwave, “grandmother and grandfather to today’s ferries”, especially for Timo Selkala. The early and mid-1960s saw a series of very notable, independently owned car ferries introduced on services…

Theofilos. Click for larger image.

Superfast VI off Ancona. Click for larger image. Last week’s picture