[shamrock]

More details here...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/humbersi...00/9135869.stm

[Billieboy]

Sailed on both of these ferries in the mid late seventies and eighties, from Europoort to Hull and back, very good ships well appointed cabins, even the Missus liked them! Very comfortable crossings too, only ran into trouble on one trip when I met a very stroppy HM Customs man with No Humour, still, in fifty years plus travelling across borders, it was the only time that I had to pay a fine and lost a bottle!

[willincity]

With respect I have just lifted this of a Danish ferry site:

Building year 1974 / 1987 / 1994
Building yard Weser, Germany (#972)
Owner SNAV Aliscafo
Operator -
Length 152,77 m / 173,29 m
Breadth 25,2 m
Draft 6,02 m
GT 12.988 / 26.290
Machinery 2 * SWD 16TM410
Speed 19 kn.
Number of passengers 1.243 / 1.042
Number of beds 1.070 / 942
Number of cars ? / 519
Lanemetres 1.320 / 2.180
Port of registry Napoli
Flag Italy
Former names SNAV Sicilia (2002-2010) - S.N.A.V.
Norland (1996-2002) - P&O North Sea Ferries
Norland (1974-1996) - North Sea Ferries

Former owners P&O North Sea Ferries (1996-2002)
North Sea Ferries (1974-1996)
Sister ships SNAV Campania,
Notes Lengthened with 20,25 m at Seebeckwerft (Bremerhaven) in 1987
Sold in 2010, to scrapping in India.

[fred henderson]

There is a fleet of old ferries being scrapped, because they do not comply with SOLAS 2010 safety regulations.

[Billieboy]

Originally Posted by fred henderson

There is a fleet of old ferries being scrapped, because they do not comply with SOLAS 2010 safety regulations.

I bet that there will be quite a few leaving Piraeus, shortly too.

[OLAU-fan]

The two ferries have been replaced since 01 oct 2010 by the newer SNAV SARDEGNA and SNAV LAZIO, in the UK and The Netherlands better known as the former OLAU twins OLAU Hollandia and OLAU Britannia. They sailed as new built ferries on the route Flushing - Sheerness during their period for the OLAU line.

[Billieboy]

Originally Posted by OLAU-fan

The two ferries have been replaced since 01 oct 2010 by the newer SNAV SARDEGNA and SNAV LAZIO, in the UK and The Netherlands better known as the former OLAU twins OLAU Hollandia and OLAU Britannia. They sailed as new built ferries on the route Flushing - Sheerness during their period for the OLAU line.

My two favourite ferries using Dutch Ports, much safer than the Heralds and Prides, (I was on one coming back from Sheerness the night of the disaster at Zeebrugge), Was on one of the first Olau trips and on one of the very last, the most reliable ferry crossing after the Hook-Harwich. A marketing director in a company I worked for had set up the whole sales and Marketing system for Olau, he lived in Dunstable when I knew him.

[Ian J. Huckin]

Originally Posted by fred henderson

There is a fleet of old ferries being scrapped, because they do not comply with SOLAS 2010 safety regulations.

I'm suprised those Storks (TM410s) even complied with basic marine engineering principles let alone any regulations....shudder...