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MV Bluenose was a Canadian passenger and motor vehicle ferry operated by Canadian National Railways and later CN Marine from 1955 to 1982. She sailed between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The vessel was named after the famed Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner Bluenose.
Bay Ferries operates the ferry service across the Bay of Fundy between Saint John, New Brunswick, and Digby, Nova Scotia, using the vessel MV Fundy Rose.. This ferry service is a continuation of steamship service dating to the 19th century, expanded upon by the Dominion Atlantic Railway in the early 20th century and subsequently the Canadian Pacific (CP).
The company, operated as a joint venture by Quest Navigation of Eliot, Maine and Singapore conglomerate ST Marine, was awarded the contract to operate the route in November 2013, when the Nova Scotia government agreed to issue $21 million in forgivable loans to the company over seven years. [1] The company began service on May 15, 2014. [2]
The Portland-Yarmouth seasonal (summer only) ferry service was established in 1970 by European ferry operator Lion Ferry. The first vessel was the M/S Prince of Fundy which operated from 1970 to 1976. She was assisted on the route between 1973 and 1976 by the M/S Bolero. Between 1976 and 1981 the only vessel in use was the M/S Caribe.
Initially named Norman Leader, the vessel remained under the ownership of her builder, ST Marine, until being acquired by Nova Star Cruises in 2014 and renamed MV Nova Star for the Gulf of Maine service. She ran seasonal operations between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, under Nova Star Cruises for
This same route was served by The Cat from November 2005 to May 2006 and Incat 046 filled in from May to October. After the 2005 demise of the Yarmouth–Bar Harbor route's competitor, Scotia Prince Cruises , using the MV Scotia Prince between Yarmouth- Portland , Maine, Bay Ferries secured this additional route for The Cat beginning in May 2006.
A high-speed catamaran ferry, known as The Cat, runs between Nova Scotia, Canada, and Bar Harbor. The route resumed in 2022, after a break of twelve years. [68] It served a Nova Scotia-to-Portland route for ten years previously. [69]
The vessel would be operated for a passenger/vehicle ferry service in the Gulf of Maine between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and retain the name HST-2, but the service and vessel would be branded as The CAT to align with previous branding used when Bay Ferries operated a high-speed passenger/vehicle ferry on the same route six ...