Up close: Banasa (ex-Mette Mols, to become Moby Kiss)
Built 1975 at Helsingor as Mette Mols for Mols Linien’s Ebeltoft-Odden route. Sold 1996 to Comarit and renamed Banasa for Tangier-Algeciras service. Re-engined and refitted in 2003/04. Laid up in…
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….
Remembering the Egnatia III
Hellenic Mediterranean Lines were probably the most famous Greek ferry company, well-known initially for fairly exotic liner service and latterly for decades of transporting backpackers on Inter-rail tickets from Italy…
Farewell Cornouailles, Havelet, Sveti Stefan
The Sveti Stefan of Montenegro Lines, originally Brittany Ferries’ Cornouailles of 1977, this afternoon arrived off Aliaga in Turkey prior to being scrapped. The ship had been ordered by Brittany…
That Was The Year That Was – 2012
2012 was an exciting year of travel with a first, but most definitely not last, ferry-centric trip to Japan where a whole new world of ships and shipping culture was…
Things seen – October 2012
We start once again in Newhaven and a pair of remarkable films from the SNCF archive showcasing the Villandry and Valencay:Chateaux sur mer and Car Ferry des années 70 Newhaven…
To Sendai on the Kitakami
. . . This mid-April journey begins in the port city of Tomakomai on Hokkaido, in the distant north of Japan; farther south the country had just been battered by…
Blast from the past: Sealink’s Hengist & Horsa
29 April 2012 marks 40 years to the day since the launch of Sealink’s Hengist and Horsa, the purpose-built ferries delivered in the summer of 1972 by the naval shipyard…
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