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MV Blue Puttees (ex-Stena Trader) is a Ro-Pax passenger/vehicle ferry operated by Marine Atlantic between the islands of Newfoundland and Cape Breton in eastern Canada. She is named after the nickname of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Largely built in Russia, her assembly was finished in Norway.
The MV Leif Ericson is a commercial passenger/vehicle ferry in service with the Canadian operator Marine Atlantic. She is currently the oldest vessel in the Marine Atlantic fleet. She was built along with two sister ships by Fosen Mekaniske Verksteder, Norway in the early 1990s. These two are Oslofjord and Patria Seaways.
MV Highlanders (ex-MV Stena Traveller) is a Ro-Pax passenger/vehicle ferry operated by the Canadian Crown corporation Marine Atlantic.She operates between the islands of Newfoundland and Cape Breton in eastern Canada and is named after several Nova Scotian infantry regiments which fought in the first and second world wars.
A roll-on, roll-off design with a bow visor, Joseph and Clara Smallwood had 2 vehicle decks and 5 decks above, the main passenger deck being Deck 5. [3] She measured 180 m (580 ft) [3] in overall length and 25 metres (82 ft) in breadth, weighing 27,614 tons. Her capacity included 1,200 passengers and 350 automobiles or 77 tractor trailers. [3]
MV Caribou was a Marine Atlantic passenger/vehicle ferry which operated between the islands of Newfoundland and Cape Breton in eastern Canada.. Caribou was named in memory of her predecessor the SS Caribou which was sunk off Port aux Basques by a German U-boat on October 14, 1942 with the loss of 137 passengers and crew.
Life at Sea Cruises promised a voyage like no other and would-be passengers deposited thousands of dollars to secure their dreams. And then everything went wrong.
Chartered to Marine Atlantic as Blue Puttees from 2009 - 2015. Sold to Marine Atlantic in 2015. [120] MV Borja (2007 - 2022 (Chartered Out)) Intended name was Stena Ausonia but chartered out on delivery from shipyard. Renamed Baltic Amber in 2010, Norman Asturias in 2011, Asterion in 2016, and Connemara in 2018 when on charter to Brittany Ferries.
At 30,285 GT, Atlantic Vision was the largest ship in Marine Atlantic fleet [11] and the largest ferry in North America. On May 21, 2010, Marine Atlantic announced that the company had agreed to charter two vessels from the Stena Line to replace the aging "Gulfspan" class vessels MV Caribou and MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood .