SeaFrance Cézanne
 The SeaFrance Cézanne in July 2008
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The SeaFrance Cézanne was a ferry of the French shipping company SeaFrance , which was completed in 1980 as a RoRo freighter under the name Ariadne . The 1990 converted to the ferry ship remained until 2009 on the route from Calais to Dover in service and in 2011 in the Indian Alang scrapped.
history
The Ariadne was built under hull number 568 near Kockums in Malmö and was launched on October 13, 1979. After its delivery to Rederi AB Nordö in January 1980, the ship began service between Koper and Tartous in February under the name Soca .
In 1981 the Soca went to the Bulgarian company So Mejdunaroden Automobile Transport as Trapezitza and from then on was used by MedLink in the Mediterranean . From 1984 the ship was in service between Livorno , Iran and Iraq and from 1987 for the Greek operator Callitzis between Trieste , Igoumenitsa and Patras .
After the Trapezitza had been chartered by Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab in September 1988 , she became the property of Sealink in October under the name Fantasia . From May 1989 the ship was in service as the Channel Seaway between Dover and Calais, before being converted into a passenger ferry in Bremerhaven on October 17 of the same year . On July 29, 1990, it began the ferry service from Dover to Calais as Fiesta under its new owner Societé Propietaires des Navaires and under the management of the Stena Line , but had to interrupt it shortly afterwards due to a strike by the crew members until July 9, 1990. In the same month, the passenger certificate, which had previously been approved for a maximum of 1,000 people, was first increased to 1,460 and later to 1,800 people.
In January 1996, after a stay in the shipyard , the Fiesta went to the newly founded shipping company SeaFrance under the name SeaFrance Cézanne and continued to operate on its old route. After thirteen years in service, the ship was decommissioned after a last crossing on February 13, 2009 and laid up in Dunkerque one day later .
After a two-year layover, the SeaFrance Cézanne went in July 2011 under the transfer name Western Light and Belize City as home port to a demolition yard in Alang, India, where it arrived on November 16 for scrapping. The shipping company SeaFrance ceased operations in the same year and was dissolved in 2012.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on doverferryphotosforums.co.uk (English)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)