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VIKING VISCOUNT (1976)
Service dates: 1987-1994
Official number: 362871
Shipping lines: TOWNSEND CAR FERRIES; EUROPEAN FERRIES GROUP; P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES (PORTSMOUTH)
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 09.10.1973
- Ordered.
- 20.06.1975
- Keel laid.
- 07.11.1975
- Launched.
- 13.05.1976
- Delivered as Viking Viscount for Monarch Steamship Company Ltd (Townsend Car Ferries Ltd, managers), London.
- 19.01.1987
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired European Ferries Group Plc which included Townsend Car Ferries Ltd.
- 31.12.1987
- Owners restyled P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) Ltd.
- 05.1989
- Renamed Pride of Winchester.
- 15.03.1991
- Sold to Howill Shipping Company and purchase-hired back to the company.
- 07.1994
- Sold to Lasithiotiki Anonymi Eteria (Naftiliaki LANE, managers), Greece, and renamed Vitsentzos Kornaros. Still reported in service.