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UNION TRADER (1975)
Service dates: 1978-2004
Official number: 365913
Shipping lines: PANDORO; P&O FERRIES; POETS FLEET MANAGEMENT LTD.; P&O TRANS-EUROPEAN; P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 03.03.1975
- Launched.
- 28.05.1975
- Delivered as Union Melbourne for Northern Coasters Ltd, London, and chartered to Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand Ltd.
- 20.11.1978
- Chartered by Pandoro Ltd.
- 1980
- Sold to Stena Shipping Ltd, Hamilton, Bermuda, and renamed Union Trader.
- 11.09.1980
- Purchased by Bovis Properties Southern Ltd (P&O Ferries Ltd, managers) and renamed Puma. Refitted by Tyne Shiprepair Ltd, South Shields.
- 20.11.1980
- Delivered.
- 31.12.1984
- POETS Fleet Management Ltd appointed managers.
- 15.05.1990
- Ownership transferred from Bovis Properties Southern Ltd to POETS Fleet Management Ltd.
- 01.12.1990
- Ownership transferred from POETS Fleet Management Ltd to Pandoro Ltd.
- 01.12.1991
- Maximum draught 5.800m.
- 1994
- Re-measured. Gross tonnage now 10,957 gt. Net tonnage now 3,287 nt.
- 07.1994
- Transferred to Liverpool/Dublin service.
- 31.12.1994
- Managers POETS Ship Management Ltd. Registry transferred to Hamilton, Bermuda. Signal letters ZCAZ2; Breadth 23.1m; Draught 4.67m. Capacity 50 drivers.
- 01.07.1997
- Operators renamed P&O Trans European.
- 12.07.1997
- Transferred to Fleetwood/Larne service.
- 30.09.1997
- Managers renamed P&O Ship Management (Irish Sea) Ltd
- 01.10.1997
- Operations transferred to P&O European Ferries.
- 01.01.1998
- Renamed European Seafarer.
- 31.12.1998
- Length 141.30m, breadth 19.40m, crew 28. Fleetwood/Larne now a passenger and freight service.
- 20.04.2004
- Sold to Stena Ropax ltd, Hamilton, Bermuda, and renamed Stena Seafarer.
- No further details