3,975 grt; 1,700 passengers.
Operator: Regie voor Maritiem Transport (Belgian Maritime Transport Authority), Ostend.
Built: 1958 by SA Cockerill-Ougree NV, Hoboken, Belgium. Yard no 785.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 2 x 12-cylinder Cockerill-Ougree-Sulzer two-stroke diesels (580 x 840 mm) of 17,000 bhp total. Speed: 22 knots.
1983-rebuilt by Kon Maats “De Schelde”, Vlissingen, Netherlands as a floating passenger terminal at Dover Western Docks, for RTM's Ostend-Dover Boeing Jetfoil service.
1994-teminal and service moved to Ramsgate.
1997-sold to breakers at La Coruna, Spain, left Ramsgate under tow 6/4.
Photo: Dover (Western Docks) circa 1970. |
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