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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…

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To Tangier on the Marrakech

COMANAV, then the state-owned shipping company of Morocco, established operations between Sete in Southern France and Tangier in 1974 following the acquisition of the former Vikingfjord, later Prinz Hamlet II,…

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Moroccan Ferry Racing

The Contenders A crossing on a grey day out of Tangier Med provides a perfect opportunity for two vintage ferries to see who can be first beneath the shadow of…

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Picture of the week: Al Mansour & Stena Atlantica

Al Mansour (ex-Stena Nordica (1975), Hellas, Stena Nautica, Reine Astrid, Moby Kiss) approaching Algeciras, Spain. She is passing the Aframax oil tanker Stena Atlantica (2006), namesake of the COMANAV ship’s…

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Funnels: Al Mansour

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

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