Category: Beyond Sealink

Voyage from Albania: European Star (ex-St Christopher, Stena Antrim, Ibn Batouta)

Report and photographs from a crossing between Vlore, Albania and Brindisi, Italy in July 2024 © Ferry Voyager Built in 1981 as the second of two new sisters for Sealink’s…

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Twilight of the Hengist

Panagia Tinou (most recently Agios Georgios, originally the Hengist of 1972). Half sunk in Piraeus harbour, July 2016.

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Beyond Sealink: A final sailing on the Horsa

In August 1970, the British Treasury approved the construction of a pair of new multi-purpose passenger car ferries for operation by British Rail from a new Folkestone car ferry terminal….

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