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Hull-Zeebrugge 31,785 Nassau, Bahamas: Sold for scrap at Aliağa. Pride of Bruges: September 1986 1986–2021 Hull-Zeebrugge 31,598 Nassau, Bahamas: Sold to Grandi Navi Veloci April 2021, renamed GNV Antares. European Seaway: October 1991: 1991–2021: Dover-Calais: 22,986: Limassol, Cyprus: Sold to Sea Lines renamed Sea Anatolia. Pride of ...
The Port of Zeebrugge (also referred to as the Port of Bruges or Bruges Seaport) is a large container, bulk cargo, new vehicles and passenger ferry terminal port on the North Sea. The port is located in the municipality of Bruges , West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium , handling over 50 million tonnes of cargo annually.
Pride of Hull was designed as two ships in one, both a car ferry and a cargo transporter, with three large freight decks, loaded by a single stern door and a car deck, on deck 7, loaded via a side ramp. She is 215.05 m (705 ft 7 in) long with a beam of 31.85 m (104 ft 6 in) and a draught of 6.04 m (19 ft 10 in).
A fine traditional looking car ferry which relatively quickly became dated by the new drive through vessels being introduced by competitors. In 1972 switched to Hull – Zeebrugge and in April 1973 was sold to Maritime Company of Lesvos in Greece and renamed Sappho entering service on their Lesvos – Piraeus service in June 1973.
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The Norland was a P&O roll-on/roll-off ferry operating between Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, UK, and Rotterdam Europoort, Netherlands, and then Zeebrugge, Belgium. The 27,000 tonne ferry was built in 1974 by AG Weser, Bremerhaven, for Dutch North Sea Ferries partners Noordzee Veerdiensten N.V. Sistership MV Norstar sailed under Dutch flag ...
On 1 July 2014, The History Press released a book called Ninety Seconds at Zeebrugge: The Herald of Free Enterprise Story (ISBN 9780752497839), telling the story of the disaster and its aftermath. A second edition, updated to reflect the thirtieth anniversary, was released on 1 March 2018 ( ISBN 978-0750985819 ).
The port of Bruges is Zeebrugge (Flemish for Bruges-on-Sea). On 6 March 1987, the British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsized after leaving the port, killing 187 people, in the worst disaster involving a British civilian vessel since 1919; it had set sail with its bow door open. [47]