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She was laid down on 9 April 2003, [4] launched 13 September the same year and completed on 7 February 2004, ahead of schedule. She completed sea trials and was handed over on 27 February, making her maiden voyage on 24 March, from Roscoff to Santander. [3] Pont-Aven experienced a number of technical problems in her 1st year of service.
The ship was designed for the Plymouth to Santander, Plymouth to Roscoff and Roscoff to Cork routes. From 1993 until 2024 the Bretagne served the Saint-Malo to Portsmouth route daily but has also seen use on the Ouistreham-Portsmouth and Cherbourg-Poole lines as refit cover and also the winter only route between Saint-Malo and Plymouth.
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.
The vessel was designed and built specifically for the Plymouth-Roscoff route, as a replacement for the Pont L'Abbe. Her maiden voyage was due to be on 10 February 2009 at 15:00hrs, sailing from Roscoff to Plymouth. However, due to severe weather conditions, this crossing was cancelled, and she sailed to Plymouth without passengers.
A ferry departs Roscoff port. Brittany Ferries operate ferry services from Roscoff to Plymouth daily from February to November with occasional Christmas sailings, to Cork twice a week (Friday and Tuesday service). Irish Ferries used to operate a ferry service from Roscoff to Rosslare from May to September but now sail to Cherbourg instead.
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 .
The broadest definition might be from Plymouth east to Kent and from Roscoff to Zeebrugge although a tighter definition would exclude ports west of Newhaven and Dieppe. A historic group of such ports is the Cinque Ports of south-east England, most of which have ceased to be commercial ports.
The port is the primary Irish port serving the European Continent with 36 direct services to the Continent weekly. [4] It handles passenger and freight ferries to and from Cherbourg , Dunkirk , St Malo and Roscoff , in France , Bilbao in Spain and Fishguard and Pembroke Dock in the United Kingdom .
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