Pride of Dover
 The Pride of Dover leaves Dover Harbor in June 2006
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The Pride of Dover was a ferry of the British P&O Ferries , which was put into service in 1987 for the shipping company Townsend Thoresen , which was dissolved that same year . The ship remained in service in the English Channel until December 2010 and was scrapped in Turkey in 2012 .
history
The Pride of Dover was built near Schichau Unterweser in Bremerhaven and launched on September 20, 1986. On May 26, 1987 the delivery to Townsend Thoresen took place. On June 2, the ship was put into service on the route from Dover to Calais .
In December 1987 the newly founded P&O European Ferries became the owner of the ship after Townsend Thoresen had ceased operations. The Pride of Dover was thus the last ship put into service for the shipping company. However, the change of ownership did not change anything about their route.
In March 1998 the ship was chartered by the P&O Stena Line and renamed P & OSL Dover that same year . In 2002 P&O European Ferries became the shipping company P&O Ferries, which is still in existence today and which uses the ship as PO Dover . However, in March 2003, it was restored to its original name, Pride of Dover .
In October 2008, the Pride of Dover was decommissioned and launched . In December 2010, the ship was once again briefly in service on the Dover-Calais route, but was then finally taken out of service, as the successors Spirit of Britain and Spirit of France were expected to enter service in 2011 and 2012 .
The Pride of Dover spent the next two years in Tilbury before it was sold to Turkey for scrapping in October 2012. She left Tilbury port on November 29, 2012, pulled by the tug Eide Fighter, and arrived in Aliağa on December 28 , where she was scrapped in the coming months.
The sister ship of the Pride of Dover was the Pride of Calais , also commissioned in 1987 , which remained in service until 2013 and was then also scrapped in Aliağa.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- History of the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)