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In May 2001, now owned and operated by P&O Ferries ordered MS Pride of Hull and MS Pride of Rotterdam. Once relieved of service on the Hull-Rotterdam route, the ship was sent off for two months major refurbishment and branding realignment, prior to entering service on the Hull- Zeebrugge route, and replacing the 27-year-old MS Norland in the ...
P&O Ferries is a British shipping company that operates ferries from United Kingdom to Northern Ireland, and to Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands). The company was created in 2002 through mergers and acquisitions within P&O.
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.
North Sea Ferries was a ferry company which was jointly owned by P&O and Nedlloyd. [1] It operated from 1965 until 1996, when it was merged into P&O Operations (P&O North Sea Ferries), [2] it had routes from Hull to Rotterdam (Europort) and Zeebrugge. P&O North Sea Ferries was then merged with P&O Ferries in 2003. [3]
Hull-Zeebrugge Hull-Rotterdam Sold to SNAV: 7310260 Saint Patrick II: 1990 1991 7,984 1,172 Returned to owner. 7230616 Pride of Rathlin (1992–1998) Pride of Walmer (1988–1992) Free Enterprise VII E (1987–1988) 1987 2000 12,503 1,035 Dover-Zeebrugge Cairnryan-Larne Sold to Sungi Budi 7204291 Pride of Ailsa (1992–1996) Pride of Sandwich ...
The ships sailed the Rotterdam route until 2001 when they were replaced by the Pride of Rotterdam and the Pride of Hull. In 2002 the ships were transferred to the Zeebrugge-Hull route, [2] again replacing Norstar and Norland. Both ships were internally modernised before entering service on this new route.
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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).