Pride of Calais

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Pride of Calais
As Ostend Spirit in Ostend, December 2012
As Ostend Spirit in Ostend, December 2012
Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (trade flag) United Kingdom
other ship names

P & OSL Calais (1998-2002)
PO Calais (2002-2003)
Ostend Spirit (2012-2013)

Ship type RoPax , ferry
home port Dover
Shipping company P&O Ferries
Shipyard Schichau Seebeck , Bremerhaven
Build number 94
Launch April 11, 1987
takeover November 27, 1987
Commissioning 4th December 1987
Decommissioning April 2013
Whereabouts Scrapped in Turkey in 2013
Ship dimensions and crew
length
169.63 m ( Lüa )
width 28.3 m
Draft Max. 6.1 m
measurement 26,443 GT
Machine system
machine 3 × Sulzer CCM-14-ZAV40S diesel engines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		23,170 kW (31,502 hp)
Top
speed 		22 kn (41 km / h)
propeller 2 ×
Transport capacities
running track meters 1,560 m
Permitted number of passengers 2,260
Vehicle capacity 650 cars
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO no. 8517748

The Pride of Calais was a ferry of the British P&O Ferries that entered service in 1987 and remained in service on the Dover to Calais route until 2012 . After a brief assignment as Ostend Spirit between Ostend and Ramsgate , the ship was scrapped in Turkey in 2013 .

history

The Pride of Calais was built under construction number 94 near Schichau Seebeck in Bremerhaven and launched on April 11, 1987. The ship originally planned for the British shipping company Townsend Thoresen was delivered to P&O European Ferries on November 27, 1987 and put into service on December 4 on the route from Dover to Calais.

From January to June 1988, the Pride of Calais could not be used because the crew went on strike. From June to July 1997, the ship also had to call at Zeebrugge instead of Calais, because the port workers there were on strike.

From March 1998 to August 2002, the Pride of Calais was jointly operated by P&O Ferries and Stena Line . To this end, it was renamed P & OSL Calais in December 1998 . In 2002 the name of the ship was changed to PO Calais , before it was given its old name Pride of Calais again in 2003 .

The Pride of Calais remained until October 20, 2012 on the route from Dover to Calais in motion before in Tilbury launched was. In December 2012 the ship was chartered out to TransEuropa Ferries as Ostend Spirit and, after a stay in the shipyard, put into service on the route from Ostend to Ramsgate in February 2013.

After only two months in service, the Ostend Spirit was transferred back to Tilbury in April 2013 to be laid up there. In October of the same year, after 26 years of service, the ship went to a demolition yard in Aliağa , Turkey , where it arrived on November 13, 2013 for scrapping. The sister ship Pride of Dover had already been scrapped there last year.

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