MS Princess Seaways
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Princess Seaways docked on the River Tyne in September 2014.
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Ordered | 1985 |
Builder | Seebeckwerft |
Yard number | 1058 |
Launched | 30 November 1985 |
Completed | 1986 |
Maiden voyage | 2 June 1986 |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Peter Pan class cruiseferry |
Tonnage | |
Length | 161 m |
Beam | 27.6 m |
Draft | 6.2 m |
Propulsion | 4 MAK 8M552 diesels of 19,876 kW or 26,655 hp |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
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MS Princess Seaways is a
History
Princess Seaways was built as the Peter Pan (the third TT-Line ship to bear the name) at
In 2002
Fjord Norway was purchased by Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways[2] and renamed Princess of Norway; she joined the DFDS Seaways fleet in November 2006 and was refurbished at Frederikshavn and began sailing on the Newcastle-Stavanger-Haugesund-Bergen route.
Princess of Norway swapped routes with the Queen of Scandinavia in May 2007, joining her sister ship King of Scandinavia on the IJmuiden - Newcastle route. Because of the equal capacity and layout of these sister ships, caravans are accepted at every sailing.[3] In 2011, she was renamed Princess Seaways.
Sister ships
The third Peter Pan was the first of four sisters in the Peter Pan class, the others being:
Olau Hollandia was the third of the vessels and built by Schichau Seebeckwerft for TT-Line's sister company Olau Line to a modified design. With her Olau sister Olau Britannia she was charted in 1994 to P&O Ferries and renamed Pride of Le Havre. In 2005, she stopped operating for P&O and was subsequently sold to SNAV in Italy and renamed SNAV Sardegna.
The former
References
- Australian Transport & Freight MagazineApril 1993 page 20
- ^ DFDS Archived 2006-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ DFDS Seaways (Dutch)
- ^ "M/S KONINGIN BEATRIX (1986)". www.faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Holthof, Philippe (March 2003). "From Krimpen to Okpo". Shippax Guide 03.
- Ferry to Tasmania, A short History by ISBN 1-877058-27-0.
- Super~Ferries of Britain, Europe and Scandinavia by ISBN 978-0-85059-923-7.
Spirit of Tasmania on Ferries of Tasmania
External links
- Ferries of Tasmania
- Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish)
- The ferry site