MS Pride of Dover
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MS Pride of Dover was a cross-channel ferry built-in 1987 for Townsend Thoresen. One of two 'Chunnel Beater' ships she primarily operated on the Dover – Calais route alongside her sister ship the Pride of Calais for P&O Ferries Ferries until 2010.
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Pride of Dover leaving Dover in 2006 | |
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Port of registry | Dover, United Kingdom |
Route | Dover-Calais |
Builder | Schichau Unterweser AG, West Germany |
Cost | approx £42 million[2] |
Yard number | 93 |
Laid down | 9 April 1986 |
Launched | 20 September 1986 |
Completed | 27 May 1987 |
Maiden voyage | 2 June 1987 |
In service | 2 June 1987 |
Out of service | 15 December 2010 |
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Fate | Scrapped at Aliağa |
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Tonnage | 26,433 GT |
Length | 169.6 m (556.4 ft) |
Beam | 28.27 m (92.7 ft) |
Draft | 6.12 m (20.1 ft) |
Depth | 13.80 m (45.3 ft) |
Installed power | 3 x Sulzer ZA40S Diesels |
Propulsion | 3 x controllable pitch propellers 2 x bow thrusters and one bow rudder |
Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
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