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BELARD (1979)
Service dates: 1985-1994
Official number: 706568
Shipping lines: POETS FLEET MANAGEMENT LTD.; PANDORO
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Cargo Ferry.
Career
- 25.04.1979
- Launched.
- 27.07.1979
- Delivered as Mercandian Carrier II for K/S Merc-Scandia XXIV P/R (Per Kenriksen, manager), Denmark.
- 1983
- Renamed Alianza.
- 1984
- Renamed Mercandian Carrier II and then Carrier II.
- 1985
- Renamed Mercandian Carrier II.
- 22.08.1985
- Purchased by POETS Fleet Management Ltd and renamed Belard. Refitted by Clydedock Engineering Ltd, Glasgow.
- 11.12.1985
- Redelivered.
- 22.01.1987
- Deadweight 3,480 tonnes.
- 01.12.1990
- Ownership transferred to Northern Ireland Trailers (Scotland) Ltd and management transferred to Pandoro Ltd.
- 29.10.1992
- Ownership transferred to Pandoro Ltd.
- 19.12.1992
- Transferred to Ardrossan/Larne service.
- 17.11.1993
- Bareboat chartered to Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Ltd for Yarmouth/Ijuiden service.
- 1994
- Re-measured. Now 5,801 gt, 1,741 nt.
- 15.08.1994
- Sold to the Mannin Line Ltd (a subsidiary of Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Ltd).
- 1998
- Sold to Aabenraa Rederi A/S, St Vincent and the Grenadines.
- 2002
- Renamed Muirneag. No further details.