Maid of Orleans (ship)
 The Maid of Orleans in Dover, 1973
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The Maid of Orleans was a British Railways ferry that entered service in 1949. The ship, which was in service until September 1975, was damaged in a collision in the port of Newhaven in November of the same year and then scrapped in Spain .
history
The Maid of Orleans was built under construction number 1414 at William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton and was launched on September 17, 1948. After being taken over by British Railways on May 18, 1949, the ship made a single trip for the press on June 22, before starting regular ferry services from Folkestone to Boulogne-sur-Mer the following day .
In August 1963, the Maid of Orleans was out of action for two days after one of the mooring lines got tangled in the propellers while casting off in Folkestone harbor and had to be freed with the help of divers.
On May 23, 1970 and from August to September 1972, the Maid of Orleans was briefly in service on the route from Dover to Calais . The ship spent the rest of its service life on various routes. On September 27, 1975, after 26 years in service, it completed its last crossing and then laid up in Newhaven .
After a month of lay in Newhaven, another ship collided with the Maid of Orleans and damaged her bow. Only three days later she was transferred by the tug Ibaizabel Tres to San Esteban de Pravia , where she arrived on November 9th for scrapping.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)