Corse (ship, 1983)
 The Corse in May 2012
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The Corse is a ferry of the French Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée , which was put into service in 1983 for the ferry service from Marseille to Corsica and Tunisia .
history
The Corse was ordered from Dubigeon-Normandie in Nantes on February 29, 1980 and launched on October 16, 1982. After the christening on May 16, 1983, the ship was put into service on June 16, 1983 on the route from Marseille to Corsica and Tunis .
The Corse was chartered out several times as a troop transport to the French government during its service life. In March 1983 for the evacuation of troops from Lebanon , in September 1990 from Saudi Arabia to Toulon and in March 1992 to Yugoslavia .
In 2001 the ship was modernized. In September 2007 it switched to the route from Sète to Oran , Skikda and Bejaia . In May 2016 the Corse was retired after 33 years of service and transferred to Salamis to be laid up there in the Spanopoulos Shipyard . Nothing is yet known about the future use of the ship.
The Corse's sister ship was the Esterel , which went into service in 1981 , was last in service until 2012 as the Mistral Express and was scrapped in Turkey in 2016 after a four-year layover .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)
- Photos of the ship on simplonpc.co.uk (English)