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PRIDE OF LE HAVRE (1975)
Service dates: 1987-2002
Official number: 365160
Shipping lines: THORESEN CAR FERRIES LTD.; P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES (PORTSMOUTH)
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 26.10.1970
- Ordered.
- 07.06.1974
- Keel laid.
- 06.01.1974
- Launched for Thoresen Car Ferries A/S, Norway.
- 14.05.1975
- Delivered as Viking Valiant for Thoresen Car Ferries Ltd, Southampton.
- 06.1986
- Extensively refitted by Schichau-Unterweser AG, Bremerhaven, West Germany.
- 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.
- 25.05.1989
- Renamed Pride of Le Havre.
- 18.03.1991
- Sold by P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) Ltd to BMBF (No.15) Ltd and then leased back.
- 01.10.1991
- Net tonnage should read 4,782 nt. Deadweight 1,544 tonnes.
- 01.12.1992
- Breadth 23.00m. Capacity 1,200 passengers.
- 09.05.1994
- Renamed Pride of Cherbourg and registered at Portsmouth. Placed on the Portsmouth/Cherbourg service.
- 04.1997
- Deadweight now 850 tonnes; draft now 5.100 metres.
- 2002
- Briefly renamed Pride of Cherbourg A until she was sold.
- 2002
- Sold to El Salam Maritime and renamed Pride of El Salam 1.
- 2003
- Chartered to Comanav for service between Almeira and Nador.
- 2004
- Renamed Nador.
- 2005
- Sold to Seven Seas Marine and renamed Mogador.
- Still reported in service