Boughaz
 As Bolette in Belfast, 1988
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The Boughaz was a passenger ferry operated by the Moroccan ferry company Comarit , originally built in 1974 under the name Viking 5 for the Finnish shipping company Viking Line . The ship, which had been decommissioned since December 2011, was sold in July 2015 for scrapping in Aliağa , Turkey , where it arrived on August 14, 2015.
period of service
The Viking 5 was built as one of a total of nine sister ships for the Finnish Viking Line in the Meyer Werft in Papenburg and put into service in July 1974 on the route from Helsingfors to Stockholm . In June 1980 the ship first switched to the route from Åbo to Stockholm and only a month later to the route from Nådendal to Kapellskär .
In 1981 the ship was sold to the Finnish shipping company Ab Sally and renamed The Viking . From then on it was used from Ramsgate to Dunkirk . After the ship failed several times in 1981 and 1982 due to machine damage, the machine system in Bremerhaven was replaced by a new one in September 1982 . In April 1983 she returned to service as Sally Express .
In February 1984 the ship was delivered to Fred. Olsen was sold and, after a modernization, put into service as Bolette on the route from Kristiansand to Hirtshals in May 1984 . From 1985 she was also used from Hirtshals to Bergen . In October 1985 the Bolette was used as a barge in Ålborg . In the years to come, the ship was chartered out to several shipping companies and used on various routes.
In November 1988 the Moroccan shipping company Comarit bought the ship from Fred. Olsen and renamed it Boughaz . It was used from Algeciras to Tangier . In 2001 the Boughaz in Bremerhaven was modernized. The ship remained in service for Comarit for over 20 years until the shipping company had to file for bankruptcy in December 2011 and was dissolved. The Boughaz was launched together with the other ships of the shipping company and offered for sale.
scrapping
At the end of July 2015, the ship was sold for scrapping in Aliağa, Turkey. On August 14, 2015, the ship arrived at the scrapping yard , where scrapping began in the following days.