Calais Seaways
 The Calais Seaways in July 2018
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The Calais Seaways is a ferry of the DFDS Seaways shipping company that was commissioned as Prins Filip in 1992 and has been in service under this name on the route from Dover to Calais since 2013 .
history
The Prins Filip was created under the hull number 1534 in the shipyard of NV Boelwerf SA in Temse and ran on 2 May 1990 by the stack . The delivery to the Belgian Regie voor Maritiem Transport was delayed by drive problems until May 4, 1992, after the construction was actually already completed in September 1991. On May 15, 1992, the ship began ferry service between Ostend and Dover.
In 1994 the port of destination of the Prins Filip changed from Dover to Ramsgate . On September 14 of the same year, a serious accident occurred on the ship when a passenger bridge to the ferry collapsed and six passengers were killed.
On April 29, 1997, the Prins Filip finished her last crossing for Regie voor Maritiem Transport, which ceased operations. The ship lay in Dunkerque for a year without a job before it found a new owner in the Stena Line in May 1998 . In July 1998 the ferry was named Stena Royal , but remained in Dunkerque. It was only in November of the same year that the ship began service for the newly founded P&O Stena Line between Dover and Zeebrugge . In May 1999 the name was changed to P & OSL Aquitaine .
At the turn of the millennium, the P & OSL Aquitaine switched to the route from Dover to Calais. On April 27, 2000, when berthing in Calais, she was unable to stop in time due to a propeller failure. The ship collided with the ferry terminal, causing severe property damage and injuring several people on board. From October 2002 the ferry was operated as PO Aquitaine only by P&O Ferries. Since March 2003 it has been called the Pride of Aquitaine .
After the Pride of Aquitaine had been running in Dunkerque since June 2005 , it went to the French LD Lines in September of the same year and took up service between Le Havre and Portsmouth as Norman Spirit in October . Her home port was briefly Genoa before the ship came under the British flag again in June 2006 . Between November 2009 and March 2010 the ferry operated the route from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dover.
In March 2010 the Norman Spirit was given the name Ostend Spirit . The following months, the ship alternated between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Dover and Ostend and Ramsgate in use. In April 2011 it got its old name again, Norman Spirit . Since March 2013, the DFDS Seaways ferry has been operating as Calais Seaways on the route from Dover to Calais.
In March 2019, the Calais Seaways in the port of Calais was occupied by around 100 refugees who had previously broken through a cordon. The ferry had to be searched by emergency services for several hours before the last person left the ship. 63 people were arrested.
With 28 years of service, the Calais Seaways is one of the oldest ferries on the Dover to Calais route. It is to be replaced by the new Côte D'Opale building in 2021 .
Technical specifications
The ship is powered by four four-stroke - eight-cylinder - diesel engines of the manufacturer Sulzer (Type: 8ZA S40) driven together 21,120 kW. The motors act on two controllable pitch propellers .
Four diesel generators, each with an output of 1,275 kW, are available for power generation.
Around 710 cars can be transported on 1,745 lane meters . The ship's passenger capacity is 1400 people.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)
- History of the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dozens of refugees occupy the ferry in Calais. In: Spiegel Online . March 3, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Steven Tarbox: Steel Cutting Starts For DFDS's New Dover To Calais Stena E-Flexer Ferry, As Name Is Announced. In: NIFerrySite. May 30, 2019, accessed January 21, 2020 .