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Condor Ferries established the first high-speed car ferry service to the Channel Islands from Weymouth in 1993 using the 74m Incat catamaran Condor 10.In the winter of 1993/1994, one of Condor's parent companies; Commodore Shipping, took over British Channel Island Ferries (BCIF) which operated conventional ferry services to the Channel Islands from Poole.
HSC Condor Liberation is a fast ferry that was built by Austal in Henderson, Western Australia. Previously named Austal 270 and Condor 102 , she entered service as HSC Condor Liberation with Channel Island ferry operator Condor Ferries on 27 March 2015.
HSC Condor Voyager is a high-speed catamaran ferry, owned by Brittany Ferries and chartered to Condor Ferries. Since being built in 2000, the vessel has borne the names Incat Tasmania, The Lynx and Normandie Express. She is designed to travel at speeds of up to 46-and-a-half knots, giving a journey time between Portsmouth and the Normandy ports ...
Jersey's new ferry company has published the first parts of its timetable. DFDS, which will take over Jersey's ferry services from Condor in March, has published details of its main route between ...
After further service in New Zealand, Condor 10 was expected to return to Condor Ferries in 1997 for a new service between Weymouth and Saint-Malo via Guernsey but Holyman required the ship for its new Holyman Sally service between Ramsgate and Dunkirk. This service was not successful and only lasted until October 1997.
The joint ferry tender process with Guernsey ended with the islands going their separate ways, as Jersey opted for Danish firm DFDS and Guernsey chose Brittany Ferries.. Farnham said Condor had ...
HSC Villum Clausen On the way from the shipyard of Austal in Australia to Rønne in Denmark the ferry had a top speed of 47.7 knots and an average of 43.4 knots, and on February 16 and 17, 2000 it had reached 1,063 sea miles within 24 hours, thereby setting the world record which was then written in the Guinness Book of Records.
Condor Ferries established a fast ferry service from Poole in 1997 and now maintain a summer service to the Islands and St Malo from the port. Corbière House, the Poole headquarters of the company until its demise still retains a BCIF style sign to this day, one of the few reminders of the company's time at the port.