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MS Pride of Calais was a cross-channel ferry owned and operated by P&O Ferries.She operated the Dover–Calais route between 1987 and 2012. In early 2013, under bareboat charter to Transeuropa Ferries, she served on their Ramsgate–Ostend route and was re-named MS Ostend Spirit.
She was converted in late 2002/early 2003 and re-entered service as Pride of Canterbury (replacing the ageing P&OSL Canterbury), sailing from Dover to Calais. [ 1 ] On 31 January 2008 she struck the wreck of SS Mahratta [ 2 ] while manoeuvring into The Downs off the Kent coast during heavy weather.
On 8 August 2008, P&O Ferries announced it had placed a €360 million order with STX Europe for two new ships to replace the ageing Pride of Dover and Pride of Calais. The two new vessels, Spirit of Britain and Spirit of France , are 49,000 gross tons and 210 metres long, making them the largest ferries to operate in the English Channel.
MS Spirit of France is a cross-channel ferry operated by P&O Ferries on the Dover–Calais route. She is the second of two Spirit-class ships built for P&O Ferries, the other being Spirit of Britain (now known as Oscar Wilde) The vessels are the largest ferries constructed for the Dover/Calais route and the largest ferries to ever cross the English Channel.
MV P&O Pioneer is a roll-on/roll-off cross-channel hybrid ferry operated by P&O Ferries.She is the first of her class ordered by P&O Ferries to replace the ageing Pride of Kent, with her sister P&O Liberte [2] due to follow in early 2024 to replace the ageing Pride of Canterbury and also Spirit of Britain in 2024 which has been chartered to Irish ferries.
On 4 June she completed her final crossing from Calais to Dover before being taken out of service to allow its crew to be trained on the ship's replacement, P&O Pioneer. Pride of Kent was moored at Tilbury from 14 July 2023 before being sold for recycling in Aliağa, Turkey departing on 9 October 2023 and arriving on 23 October 2023.
MS Côte des Flandres is a Ro-Ro Passenger Ferry owned by Eurotunnel and operated by DFDS Seaways France between Dover and Calais, the ship was the second to be built for SeaFrance in 2005, she entered service with SeaFrance in March 2005 and finished with SeaFrance in January 2012 when the company was liquidated.
In February 2023, it was rumoured that the ship was charterted to Maritima Peregar SA, and began sailing between Málaga, Spain, and Tanger-Med, Morocco, from 6 March 2023. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The Blue Wave Harmony first arrived in El Salvador to initiate scheduled ferry services in early August 2023 to Costa Rica a few days later. [ 14 ]