Moby baby
 The Moby Baby in the port of Livorno, January 2013
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The Moby Baby was a last of the Italian Moby Lines inserted ferry , the 1966 Svea Drott for the Swedish Rederi Ab Svea was put into service. The ship had been in service on the route from Piombino to Portoferraio since 1990 and when it was decommissioned in September 2015 it was the longest-serving unit of the shipping company. In 2017 the ferry was sold as Anemos for further service, but in 2018 it was scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey .
history
The Svea Drott was built under construction number 202 at Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona and launched on January 20, 1966. After delivery to the shipping company Ab Svea on June 8, 1966, the ship was put into service on the route from Helsingborg via Copenhagen to Travemünde .
After the Svea Drott was temporarily retired in March 1974, the Rederi Ab Svea chartered the ship in June 1974 to the Rederi Ab Gotland , who used it between Visby and Oskarshamn . In August 1974 it switched to the route from Weymouth to the Channel Islands .
In November 1974, Svea Drott became the property of Lloyds Leasing Ltd. about which she chartered out to British Railways as Earl Godwin from January 1975 . After renovation work in Holyhead , the ship was used from February 1, 1975 between Weymouth, Jersey and Guernsey . Between November 1977 and January 1978 Portsmouth was the port of departure of the ship instead of Weymouth.
In January 1979, the Earl Godwin became the property of Sealink and from then on ran again from Portsmouth to the ports of Jersey and Guernsey. In the following years, the ship changed routes several times and also called at the ports of Heysham , Belfast and Cherbourg . After modernization work at Govan Shipbuilders in January and February 1986, the Earl Godwin stayed in service for another seven months between Weymouth and Cherbourg before it was retired. After a short layover time on the River Fal, the ship was used again between March and July 1988 to Cherbourg, before it was laid up without employment in Southampton and from October 1988 in Falmouth .
From January 1989 to March 1989 and from January 1990 to March 1990 the mainland Market Deliveries was chartered out and used on various routes. In the meantime, the ship was back in service for Sealink between Portsmouth and Cherbourg, but only carried vehicles and no passengers.
In March 1990 the Earl Godwin went to the Italian Moby Lines and was renamed Moby Baby . The commissioning between Piombino and Portoferraio took place on June 29, 1990, where the ship remained in service until its decommissioning in September 2015. The Moby baby was with her fifty years of service the oldest ship in the fleet of Moby Lines.
In May 2017, the ship was sold together with the Moby Love to Portucalence Shipping and renamed Anemos . A planned new period of service did not materialize, however. Instead, the 52-year-old Anemos arrived in October 2018 for scrapping in Aliağa, Turkey.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)