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P&O Ferries (United Kingdom to France; Netherlands, Belgium and Spain) P&O Irish Sea ; Pentland Ferries (Orkney, Scotland) Polferries (the Baltic Sea) Red Funnel (Isle of Wight to mainland England.) Royal Borough of Greenwich (Woolwich Ferry across the River Thames) Saremar (Italy) Scandlines (Baltic Sea) Shetland Islands Council (internal ...
Baltic Ferry E (1987–1992) 1987 2001 18,732 Felixstowe-Zeebrugge Rosslare-Cherbourg Sold to Celtic Link Ferries: 7528659 Pride of Flanders (1992–2002) Nordic Ferry E (1980–1992) 1987 2002 18,732 688 (1980–1995) 144 (1995–2002) Felixstowe-Zeebrugge Felixstowe-Rotterdam Sold to Stena Line: 7528568 Global Freighter: Returned to owner ...
This was the longest route that P&O Ferries operated and was often late arriving due to the weather conditions in the Bay of Biscay. [citation needed] 1998 saw the introduction of a new high-speed service on the Portsmouth–Cherbourg route using the Superstar Express, being replaced by the larger Incat-built 91m long Portsmouth Express in 2000.
This list of passenger ship companies is of companies that own and operate passenger ships, including cruise ships, cargo-passenger ships, and ferries (for passengers and automobiles). For the list of companies that own and operate freight ships ( bulk carriers , car carriers , container ships , roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers ...
Ferries of the United Kingdom includes ferries (boats and ships) designed, built, or operated in the United Kingdom. For ferry routes to, from or within the United Kingdom, refer to Category:Ferry transport in the United Kingdom. For ferry companies based in the United Kingdom, see Category:Ferry companies of the United Kingdom
P&O Stena Line operated the route until 1998 after which Hoverspeed operated the route until 2004. Because the French government did not want the route to be lost, they started a new subsidised company by the name of Transmanche Ferries in April 2001. After five years of successful service and the arrival of two newbuilds, the government ...
HSC Villum Clausen On the way from the shipyard of Austal in Australia to Rønne in Denmark the ferry had a top speed of 47.7 knots and an average of 43.4 knots, and on February 16 and 17, 2000 it had reached 1,063 sea miles within 24 hours, thereby setting the world record which was then written in the Guinness Book of Records.
The last P&O Stena vessel on the route, the Stena Cambria, undertook her last sailing on 31 January 1998. No vessel replaced the Stena Cambria service until a high speed passenger service was instituted by Hoverspeed using SuperSeaCat Two in April 1999, however this service ended in 2005. [2] Despite the Hoverspeed passenger service, a ...