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P&O began ferry operations in Southampton in 1967 with a route to Le Havre in France in a joint venture with SAGA under the Normandy Ferries brand, later rebranded as P&O Ferries. The MV Dragon , owned by P&O, was registered in Southampton whereas her identical sister, MV Leopard , flew the French flag and was registered in Le Havre.
P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company [1]) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century. Formerly a public company, it was sold to DP World in March 2006 for £3.9 billion.
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 ...
The former Shetland – Orkney ferry Earl of Zetland, now a floating restaurant. ROF Beaver (1975–87) Earl of Zetland (1877–1946) Earl of Zetland (1939–75) Highlander (1939–40) renamed St. Catherine II 1940; P&O ferry St Clair (V) at Lerwick, 1994. This was the Aberdeen – Lerwick ferry, built in Bremerhaven in 1971 to carry 406 ...
In December 2011, P&O announced Pacific Sun would make her last journey for the company on 1 July 2012 and leave the fleet shortly thereafter. [44] She was sold to HNA Group's HNA Cruises to become Henna and began operating under her new name on 26 January 2013. [45] In March 2016, P&O announced that Pacific Pearl would leave the fleet in March ...
SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners.She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra.
P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when Townsend Thoresen was renamed P&O European Ferries, until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operations were merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
P&O Cruises is a British cruise line based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.It was originally a subsidiary of the freight transport company P&O and was founded in 1977. [1]