RoPax ferry; 4,190 grt; 2,784 dwt; 160 passengers (later reduced to 60); 82 TEU
Operator: Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London (trading as The Transport Ferry Service)
Built 1968 by Swan Hunter (Shipbuilders) Ltd, Walker, Newcastle, UK. Yard no 2025
Propulsion twin-screw with 2 x vee-16-cylinder, four-stroke Lindholmens-Pielstick 16PC2-V400 developing a total of 13,360 bhp at 500 rpm. Speed: 18 knots.
1971-absorbed into European Ferries Group (Townsend-Thoresen); 1992-EUROPEAN FREIGHTER; 1993-AFRODITE II (Cyprus flag); 2003-AJMAN GLORY (Comoros flag); 2005-to breakers at Alang, India
Photographed in Tilbury Dock, London 14/1/1968, just after delivery by Swan Hunter and four days before starting operations between Felixstowe and Rotterdam Europoort