Duke of Rothesay (ship, 1956)
 The Duke of Rothesay at Holyhead
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The Duke of Rothesay was a British Railways ferry that entered service in 1956. The ship used in his career on various routes remained in service until 1975 and was then scrapped in Faslane-on-Clyde .
history
The Duke of Rothesay was ordered from William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton in April 1954 and launched on February 10, 1956 under construction number 1487. After the takeover by British Railways on December 10, 1956, the ship took the liner service from Heysham to Belfast .
In 1967 the Duke of Rothesay was converted by Cammell, Laird & Company for ferry service and from then on could carry up to 100 vehicles. Then the ship began service on the route from Fishguard to Rosslare Harbor .
Since 1971, the Duke of Rothesay was only in service as a reserve ship and occasionally operated the route from Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire and again from Heysham to Belfast. In June 1974 the ship was also briefly in use between Dover and Calais . In March 1975 it was finally retired after a good eighteen years of service.
After seven months lay-up in Barrow-in-Furness , the Duke of Rothesay was sold to Shipbreaking Industries in Faslane-on-Clyde, where it arrived on October 18, 1975 for scrapping.
The sister ship of the Duke of Rothesay is the Duke of Lancaster , which has been on the coast of Llanerch-y-Mor since 1979 .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)