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VIKING VOYAGER (1976)
Service dates: 1987-1994
Official number: 362870
Shipping lines: TOWNSEND THORESEN; P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES (PORTSMOUTH)
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 26.10.1970
- Ordered.
- 17.12.1974
- Keel laid.
- 18.06.1975
- Launched.
- 15.01.1976
- Delivered as Viking Voyager for Stanhope Steamship Co Ltd, London (Townsend Car Ferries Ltd, managers).
- 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 renamed P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) Ltd.
- 24.04.1989
- Renamed Pride of Cherbourg.
- 18.03.1991
- Sold by P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) Ltd to Howill Shipping Ltd and then hire-purchased back.
- 31.03.1994
- New certificate following re-measurement. Gross tonnage now 9,735 gt, net tonnage now 3,182 nt.
- 1994
- Briefly renamed Pride of Cherbourg II until she sold.
- 21.09.1994
- Sold to Lineas Fred Olsen for Canary Isles services and renamed Banaderos.
- 2000
- Renamed Barlovento.
- 2005
- Sold to Saos Ferries, Greece. No further details.