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Most serious was the flooding of an auxiliary engine room in August 2004 caused by a faulty sea valve leaving the ferry unable to move from the Plymouth terminal for two days. [5] Many services were disrupted at the height of the holiday season, many passengers having to be transferred to services from Poole and Portsmouth .
Plymouth-Santander, Plymouth-Roscoff and Roscoff-Cork 1982-1989; Plymouth-Roscoff, with winter sailings on Portsmouth/Plymouth-St Malo as well, 1989-2002; Portsmouth-Caen 2002; From her launch and throughout her service with Brittany Ferries her Port of Registry was Morlaix.
Brittany Ferries is the trading name of the French shipping company, BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A. founded in 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France and the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain, and between Spain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.
She also sailed between Portsmouth and Santander during the winter in the mid-nineties. Though generally found on the Portsmouth to St Malo route Bretagne would also operate on other routes, normally in Winter, such as Portsmouth to Cherbourg and Plymouth to Roscoff. Bretagne has previously been used on Spanish routes, operating between ...
Since 1973 the company has operated ferry services from the dock to Roscoff on the north coast of Brittany, France, and also to Santander on the north coast of Spain. Ferry services depart and arrive daily from March to late October, and less regularly during the winter months. MV Pont L'Abbe at Millbay in 2006. The (now demolished) grain silo ...
After the rebuild was completed in June 1993, the ship entered service on Brittany Ferries' Plymouth–Santander route, as well as Plymouth–Roscoff and Cork–Roscoff. In 2004 the new MV Pont-Aven replaced the Val de Loire on her old routes, and she was transferred to serve on the Portsmouth–St Malo and Portsmouth–Cherbourg routes .
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Armorique was again laid up at Saint-Malo from September 1977 to April 1978, when she entered service on the Plymouth - Santander route. She served on this route until May 1982, but also occasionally served on the Plymouth - Roscoff - Cork route during this time. She then transferred to the Roscoff - Cork route until she ran aground off Saint ...