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Cotentin is a ROPAX ferry that is 167 m (547 ft 11 in) long overall with a beam of 26.8 m (87 ft 11 in) and a draught of 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in). The vessel has a 22,308 gross tonnage (GT), a 6,692 net tonnage (NT) and measures 6,200 tons deadweight (DWT).
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, England, Ireland, and Spain.
The Port is used by Brittany Ferries. [19] and Condor Ferries. [20] The ferry crossing to Cherbourg in France is the shortest crossing of Brittany Ferries. [21] In the summer of 2020, the Cherbourg services were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [22] Poole Port also has a Border Force Post. [23]
She is the current and longest serving Brittany Ferries flagship; sailing between the UK, France, Spain and Ireland. Pont Aven is the fastest and largest purpose-built cruise-ferry on the English Channel. Prior to being named, Pont-Aven was referred to as Bretagne 2; this was then the codename for the new Brittany Ferries vessel for the ...
The new vessel, Honfleur, would result in a fleet movement with Normandie assigned to the Portsmouth-Le Havre service from late 2019. In June 2020 Brittany Ferries announced the cancellation of the Honfleur contract with the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft shipyard in Germany meaning Normandie will remain in the Portsmouth-Caen route.
MV Mont St Michel is a ferry operated by Brittany Ferries. The vessel was built at Van der Giessen de Noord shipyard in the Netherlands and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since 2002. Mont St Michel was to be named Deauville or Honfleur but this was thought to be too similar to Barfleur .
As the Coutances with Brittany Ferries and Truckline the ship sailed on the following routes:- Poole-Cherbourg; Primary route from 1977 until November 2007. Then weekends only from end of November 2007 until end of February 2008. Sundays only from 1 March 2008. Coutances final sailing on this route was the 16:00 Poole-Cherbourg on 28 April 2008.
Brittany Ferries sold her in 2005 to TransEuropa Ferries, operating between Port of Ramsgate and Ostend under the name Wisteria. In 2006 she was chartered to Ferrimaroc and Acciona Trasmeditarranea for use on their Almeria (Spain) to Nador (Morocco) route.