Day: March 6, 2009

The Vortigern – 40 years ago

March 5, 1969 was launching day for British Rail’s Vortigern at Swan Hunters’ Tyneside Neptune yard. The ship would go on to have a succesful UK career of 19 years…

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The ‘new’ Stena Caledonia

. . . In January 2009, Stena Line confirmed they were continuing their recession-busting modernisation programme by investing £1.8m in a thorough upgrade of the Stranraer-Belfast route’s single conventional vessel,…

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Funnels: Al Mansour

Al Mansour (ex-Stena Nordica, Reine Astrid), May 2007.

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