Last of the classic train ferries: A round trip with the Rosalia
In Northern Europe the train ferry is under threat. The scene surveyed by P. Ransome-Wallis in his masterful book Train Ferries of Western Europe at the end of the 1960s…
Picture of the week 30 March 2009 – Hrvat and Petar Hektorovic
Catching the ferry: the Hrvat and the Petar Hektorovi? at Split. Click for larger image. Last week’s picture
Farewell Roi Baudouin, Georgios Express
The legendary Georgios Express, the former Belgian/RMT Roi Baudouin of 1965, set sail on Monday, 23 March, under tow to Aliaga in Turkey for scrap. The ship had been laid…
Hengist, Horsa, Senlac: The Rafina Summer of 2004
Although built together for Sealink, being delivered in 1972-73, the Hengist, Horsa and Senlac never operated together as such, the Senlac being Newhaven-based. There were a few occasions when the…
Picture of the week 22 March 2009 – Alandsfarjan
Alandsfarjan (ex-Kattegat, nf Tiger) at Mariehamn, 26 January 2008. Click for larger image. Last week’s picture
Picture of the week – 12 March 2009
Sara I (ex-Benchijigua, Djursland II) seen after leaving Algeciras for Tangier, May 2008. Click for larger image. Last week’s picture.
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…
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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