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NORSEA (1987)
Service dates: 1987-2006
Official number: 712654
Shipping lines: NORTH SEA FERRIES LTD.; P&O NORTH SEA FERRIES; P&O FERRIES
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 09.09.1986
- Launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
- 07.05.1987
- Delivered as Norsea for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for management and operation by North Sea Ferries Ltd.
- 31.05.1988
- Ownership transferred to Braham Shipping Ltd (non-Group company).
- 01.12.1991
- Re-measured. Now deadweight 6,419 tonnes.
- 01.01.1997
- North Sea Ferries Ltd renamed P&O North Sea Ferries Ltd.
- 2002
- Following an internal rebuilding, she transferred to the Hull/ Zeebrugge service receiving P&O Ferries livery.
- 2003
- Renamed Pride of York.
- 03.2006
- DP World bought The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, therefore the vessel was no longer in P&O service.
- Still reported in service