lion

Tiger class cruiser

Normandy Ferries Built 1967 by Cammell Laird 3,987 gross tons IMO 6723654 Later: Baroness M Portelet Adinda Lestari 101

Normandy Ferries Built 1967 6,398 gross tons IMO 6723654 Subsequently: Portelet Baroness M Adinda Lestari

P&O Ferries Built 1967 6,398 gross tons IMO 6723654 Later: Portelet Baroness M Adinda Lestari 101

m.t. LION in the North Sea Canal near Amsterdam on her way to the sea trials. She was built by C. Van der Giessen Scheepswerven at Krimpen aan de IJssel for the Norwegian owners A./S. Ambra, Oslo.

The first P&O livery for the Dover crossings were imported from Normandy Ferries with their powder blue hulls and cream upperworks not unlike Maersk in the 50's and 60's. This is the Lion approaching Dover in 1984.

P&O were very wary before commitment to Dover. Perhaps their first tests involved the Lion seen here in 1977. Built 1967 she was 3,333 gr tons.

Normandy Ferries Postcard issued at the time the hull was changed from black to blue with this airbrushed to the new colour

LION at Larne in early 1973, it was January/February but I've lost the exact date. Normally she did an overnight cargo run for Burns and Laird from Ardrossan to Larne and a daylight passenger/cargo sailing from Ardrossan to Belfast. As rarely seen most people were unaware she was a regular caller at

Baroness M, ex lion, kusadasi, sept. 1990