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PRIDE OF DOVER (1987)
Service dates: 1987-2006
Official number: 709069
Shipping lines: STANHOPE STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD.; TOWNSEND CAR FERRIES; EUROPEAN FERRIES GROUP; P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES (DOVER); P&O STENA LINE; P&O FERRIES
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 09.04.1986
- Keel laid.
- 20.09.1986
- Launched.
- 19.01.1987
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired European Ferries Group Plc.
- 27.05.1987
- Delivered as Pride of Dover for Stanhope Steamship Co Ltd (Townsend Car Ferries Ltd, managers).
- 02.06.1987
- Maiden voyage Dover/Calais.
- 31.12.1987
- Managers restyled P&O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd.
- 19.12.1990
- Ownership transferred from Stanhope Steamship Co Ltd to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 01.10.1991
- Re-measured. Now draught 6.100m, horsepower 30,000 bhp.
- 01.12.1992
- Re-measured. Now deadweight 4,292 tonnes.
- 02.1997
- Re-measured. Now deadweight 4,203 tonnes.
- 09.03.1998
- Ownership transferred from The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to P&O Stena Line Ltd (P&O interest 60%); managers now P&O Stena Line Ship Management Ltd (P&O interest also 60%).
- 19.03.1999
- Renamed P&OSL Dover.
- 2002
- Renamed PO Dover after P&O bought out the Stena minority interest.
- 2003
- Renamed Pride of Dover.
- 03.2006
- Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd when DP World bought The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, therefore the vessel was no longer in P&O service.