Vronskiy
 As Prinses Beatrix before Hoek van Holland, August 1980
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The Vronskiy is a ferry of the Spanish Acciona Trasmediterranea , which was commissioned in 1978 as Prinses Beatrix for the Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland . The ship has been in service on the Almería to Oran route since 2013 .
history
The Prinses Beatrix was built under construction number 959 in the Verolme Scheepswerf Heusden and launched on January 14, 1978. After the takeover by the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland on June 24, 1978, the ship managed by Sealink was put into service on June 29, 1978 on the route from Hook of Holland to Harwich .
On October 1, 1985, the Prinses Beatrix was sold to the French shipping company Brittany Ferries and used by the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland until May 1986, before it was renamed Duc de Normandie in May 1986 and modernized in Rotterdam . On June 5, 1986, the ship began service for Brittany Ferries on the Caen to Portsmouth route .
On 10 July 2002, the changed Duc de Normandie on the route from Roscoff to Plymouth before she asked, and on 30 September 2004 from service in Caen launched was. In November 2004 the ship was transferred to Danzig and laid up there.
In March 2005 the Duc de Normandie became the property of the Belgian Transeuropa Ferries , which renamed it Wisteria and chartered it to the Moroccan shipping company Ferrimaroc . After renovation work in Ostend , the ship was put into service on March 30, 2005 on the route from Almería to Nador .
After the charter expired in October 2005, the Wisteria began operating Transeuropa Ferries between Ostend and Ramsgate in November 2005 . In January 2006, however, the ship was launched again and chartered to the Spanish Acciona Trasmediterranea in February. On March 9, 2006, the Wisteria began operating between Barcelona , Palma , Ibiza and Mahón . In the following years the ship changed its route several times.
After the bankruptcy of Transeuropa Ferries, Wisteria became the property of Slovenia- based Nizhniy Shipping Ltd. in April 2013 . which they chartered out to Acciona under the new name Vronskiy . The ship has since been used on the route from Almería to Oran.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)