MS Pride of Winchester
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The MS Pride of Winchester, was a UK Ro-Ro/Passenger ferry, which was part of P&O European Ferries' fleet. She was built in 1975 by Aalborg as the Viking Viscount for Townsend Thoresen and was put into service by P&O European Ferries in 1989, when European Ferries Group was purchased by P&O. She was named after Winchester, a city in Hampshire, England.
History | |
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Owner |
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Operator | Lane Sea Lines (1994 - 2017) |
Port of registry | UK (1976 - 1994) Greece (1994 - 2020) |
Builder | Aalborg Værft AS |
Yard number | 206 |
Launched | 7 November 1975 |
Completed | 1976 |
Maiden voyage | 1976 |
In service | 1976 |
Out of service | 2017 |
Identification | IMO number: 7358327 |
Fate | Scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey in 2020 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 6,386 |
Length | 128.71 m |
Beam | 19.81 m |
Draught | 4.53 m |
Speed | 21 knots |
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The ship was used Originally deployed on the Felixstowe to Zeebrugge route she was later transferred to the Portsmouth to Cherbourg route until 1994 when she was replaced by a bigger ship, the original Pride of Le Havre. She also operated on the Calais-Dover line. In 1995 was sold from a Greek company Lane Sea Lines for the Piraeus, Milos, Agios Nikolaos, Sitia. Then the ship did the Piraeus, Kithira, Antikythera, Githio, Kalamata, Kisamos. During the Summer of 2017 Vitsentzos Kornaros had a problem with her engines and then was laid-up in Kinosoura, Greece. In April 2020 Vitsentzos Kornaros sold for scrap in Aliaga, Turkey.[1]