Moby Drea
 The Moby Drea in Genoa, March 2011
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The Moby Drea is a RoRo ferry of the Italian Moby Lines , which was put into service in 1975 as Tor Britannia for the Tor Line . It has been in use on the route from Genoa to Olbia since May 2007 .
history
Tor Britannia (1975-1981)
The ship was laid on January 21, 1974 under the hull number 607 in the Flender works in Lübeck as Tor Britannia and was launched on October 10, 1974. After being taken over by Tor Line on May 16, 1975, the ship was put into service on May 21 on the route from Gothenburg to Amsterdam .
In October 1981 the Tor Britannia was renamed Scandinavian Star and used by Scandinavian Seaways Ltd. who were planning to use the ship between Freeport and Florida . Instead, however, it was launched in Aalborg in November 1981 . From January 1982 the ship was in Copenhagen .
Tor Britannia (1982–1990)
After a further two months of lay, the Scandinavian Star went to Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab in March 1982, which it renamed Tor Britannia again and deployed between Gothenburg and Felixstowe . In April 1983, Felixstowe was replaced by Harwich as the destination port. In addition to the normal ferry service, the ship was used for several charter trips in the following years, including several trips under the direction of NATO and as accommodation for refugees in Malmö from December 1989 to March 1990.
In November 1990 it was named Prince of Scandinavia .
In the 1990s, the Prince of Scandinavia was in service on various routes. In addition, the ship was still chartered out. So it was in February 1995 as a hotel ship in Copenhagen. It was chartered from the UK Department of Defense from April to May 1995 and used off the coast of Great Britain. Then the Prince of Scandinavia was in service between Genoa , Marseille and Tunis under the charter of the Cotunav shipping company until October 1995 . In the following years she was in service from February to May 1997 on the route from Hamburg to Harwich and from May to December 1998 from Hamburg to Newcastle upon Tyne .
On New Year's Eve 1998, the Prince of Scandinavia was used for a single cruise to Heligoland . In March 1999, the ship ran aground in the Elbe , but remained undamaged. The Prince of Scandinavia spent the new millennium again from April 2000 to January 2001 on the route from Hamburg to Harwich. The last ship was IJmuiden and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Moby Drea (since 2003)
In November 2003 the ship was taken over by the Italian Moby Lines and renamed as Moby Drea .
After a stay in the shipyard in Genoa, the Moby Drea started the ferry service between Livorno and Olbia in May 2004 . In May 2007 she switched to her current route from Genoa to Porto Torres.
Sister ship
The sister ship of Moby Drea is the 1976 Tor Scandinavia in service Moby Otta .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)