Irish Ferries
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Irish Ferries is a shipping company from Ireland , based in Dublin , the ferry services between Ireland and Wales ( UK ) and between Ireland and France operates. The shipping company is actually the Irish Continental Group plc , but the name Irish Ferries is much more common as a ferry operator. In terms of vehicle capacity , the shipping company is currently the owner of the world's largest car ferry , the Ulysses .
history
The company was founded in 1974 as a joint venture of the Irish Shipping Limited , the Fearnley & Eger and the Swedish company Lion Ferry A / B founded. Originally operating as the Irish Continental Line on the route from Rosslare in Ireland to Le Havre in France with the ferries St. Patrick and St. Killian , Irish Shipping Limited ended up in liquidation in 1984. It was sold to the Irish Continental Line and got its current name. In 1992 Irish Ferries took over the British and Irish Steampacket Company Limited (B & I Line) and thus the ferry service between Dublin and Holyhead in Wales.
In January 2007 Irish Ferries announced the purchase of the ferry Kronprins Harald for the Ireland-France traffic. The ferry served the route Kiel - Oslo for the Norwegian shipping company Color Line until September 2007 . From the end of 2007 it served as the successor to the Normandy under the name Oscar Wilde on the Rosslare – Roscoff and Rosslare – Cherbourg routes between Ireland and France.
In January 2018 Irish Ferries announced the sale of the Jonathan Swift to Balearia . It was replaced in April 2018 by the Dublin Swift , which was acquired in 2016 and chartered to the Military Sealift Command as Westpac Express until 2018 .
In December 2018 the WB Yeats was delivered by the shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft . The ship will be used on the Dublin - Cherbourg route. The Rosslare - Roscoff and Rosslare - Cherbourg routes operated by Oscar Wilde were discontinued in early 2019 and the ship was sold.
In January 2018 a ferry measuring 67,300 GT and costing 165.2 million euros was ordered from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft . She should be delivered in 2020 and replace the Ulysses on the Dublin - Holyhead route . The contract was terminated in June 2020 following the bankruptcy of the shipyard.
Routes
Ireland - Wales
Ireland - France
fleet
- Isle of Inishmore (since 1997); Rosslare - Pembroke (3:45 hours)
- Ulysses (since 2001); Dublin - Holyhead (3:15 hours) - the world's largest car ferry in terms of vehicle capacity
- Dublin Swift (since 2018); Dublin - Holyhead
- Epsilon ; Dublin - Cherbourg (19:00 hrs.)
- WB Yeats ; Dublin - Cherbourg ; Dublin - Holyhead
former ferries:
- Saint Patrick (1973-1982)
- Saint Killian (1978-1999); after renovation 1982: Saint Killian II ; Rosslare / Cork - Cherbourg / Le Havre; Cork / Rosslare - Roscoff / Cherbourg / Le Havre
- Saint Patrick II (1982-1998); Rosslare / Cork - Roscoff / Cherbourg / Le Havre
- Isle of Innisfree (1995-2001); Dublin - Holyhead; Rosslare - Pembroke Dock
- Normandy (1998-2007); Rosslare - Cherbourg; Rosslare - Roscoff (17 hours)
- Jonathan Swift (1999-2018); Dublin - Holyhead (1:49 hours)
- Oscar Wilde (2007-2019); Rosslare - Cherbourg (18:30 hrs.); Rosslare - Roscoff (17:30 hrs.)
- Breizh Izel (1981); Rosslare - Cherbourg - Roscoff
- Gotland (1988); Rosslare - Cherbourg; Rosslare - Le Havre
- Isle of Inishmore (1993-1996); Dublin - Holyhead; Pembroke Dock - Rosslare; Renamed Isle of Inishturk in 1996
- Pride of Bilbao / Bilbao (1993-2011); chartered out to P&O European Ferries
- Purbeck (1996); Dublin - Holyhead
- Peveril (1997); Pembroke Dock - Rosslare
- Leili (2005); Pembroke Dock - Rosslare
- Stena Foreteller (2020)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irish Continental Group Sells Jonathan Swift , World Maritime News, January 30, 2018.
- ↑ The End of an Era? Irish Ferries 'Unlikely' to Operate a France Service from Rosslare in 2019. December 19, 2018, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Oscar Wilde (now GNV Allegra). June 30, 2018, accessed February 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Irish Ferries supprime la ligne Rosslare-Roscoff. December 21, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ FSG is building another RoPax ferry for the Irish Sea ( Memento from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Hansa - International Maritime Journal, January 2, 2018.
- ^ Irish Continental Group plc ("ICG" or the "Group") Trading update. June 11, 2020, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Timetable for 2020. Accessed on February 22, 2020 .
- ^ HSC Jonathan Swift. . Retrieved April 28, 2018.
- ↑ IMO 7528489
- ↑ IMO 7105029