BLUE STAR 1

Maiden voyage on Zeebrugge - Rosyth route Jan 2007

BLUE STAR 1

26th April 2008

SCOTTISH VIKING [IMO 9435454]

22,700 gt, Norfolk Line, Rosyth - Zeebrugge Service

Service started 19th May 2009,  photograph 11th June 2009

see below for other views

SCOTTISH VIKING (B)

SCOTTISH VIKING (C)

SUPERFAST IX [IMO 9211509]

Attica Holdings S.A. (SuperFast Ferries - Blue Star Ferries), sailed Rosyth - Zeebrugge 2002 to 2005 then switched to Germany - Finland service

Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 2002, 5,525 dwt

SUPERFAST X at Forth Road Bridge

Attica Holdings S.A. (SuperFast Ferries - Blue Star Ferries)

Rosyth - Zeebrugge from 2002 [sold Augut 2006, transfer 2007]

Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 2002, 6,920 dwt

Renamed Jean Nicoli (2007), Seafrance-moliere (2008)

SUPERFAST X (stern) [IMO 9211511]

Attica Holdings S.A. (SuperFast Ferries - Blue Star Ferries)

Rosyth - Zeebrugge [sold Augut 2006, transfer 2007]

Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 2002, 6,920 dwt

BEACHY HEAD

Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, AWSR Shipping Ltd, 13,256 dwt, 2003

Built for AWSR Shipping Ltd {Foreland Shipping Ltd} for the supply of a world-wide strategic transport service, to the MoD under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). It means the MoD will be able to rapidly move several thousand armoured and unarmoured vehicles to respond to crises around the globe. The MoD will normally use four of the ships with all six available for operations.

Leased to Transfennica -  route -  Hanko and Lübeck.

2nd August 2006

CELESTINE [IMO 9125372]

Ro-Ro Cargo ship, Cobelfret Ferries, 23.986 gt, 9,677 dwt, built 1996.

Delivered 1998 and sailed on charter as the RFA Sea Crusader (A98) as navy's contribution to the Joint Rapid Reaction Force.  Current name since 2003.   Firth of Forth 19^th September 2009, from Vlissingen Antwerp.

CHRISTIAN IV (arriving Kristiansand)

Color Line,  Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 1982,

Kristiansand –Hirtshals

2nd August 2006

SEE NOTES FOR CURRENT ROLE

CHRISTIAN IV

photograph by John Mitchell

21st August 2005

HARTLAND POINT [IMO 9248538]

Ro-Ro Cargo, AWS, 23,235gt, 10,090 dwt, built 2002

Rosyth, 5^th October 2009

KING OF SCANDINAVIA

DFDS,  Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 31,395 grt,Newcastle  - Amsterdam

3rd August 2006

KING OF SCANDINAVIA

DFDS,  Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 31,395 grt,Newcastle  - Amsterdam

photograph by John Mitchell

24th July 2006

LOGOS HOPE [IMO 7302914]

NORQUEEN

Ro-Ro ferry, P&O. 1980, 17,884 gt, 11,400 dwt.

NORRONA  (off Bergen)

Smyril Line, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 2003, 35,866gt, 

            1,482 passengers and 3,250 tonnes of cargo - 800 cars .    

She normally plies between Seyðisfjörður in Iceland; the Faeroes Capital, Torshavn; Bergen in Norway and Hanstholm in Denmark.  During the summer months she includes Scrabster, Caithness on the Bergen Torshavn leg of her journey.

off Bergen 3rd Aug 2004

SEE NOTES FOR MOST RECENT INFORMATION

NORRONNA - Leith

5th December 2007

PRINCESS OF SCANDINAVIA [IMO 7361324]

DFDS,  Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, Newcastle  - Gothenberg

photograph by John Mitchell at Gothenberg, 20th August 2005

Sold Moby SpA, renamed Moby Otta, 2007

QUEEN of SCANDINAVIA

DFDS Seaways, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 2003, Newcastle  - Amsterdam

31st July 2006

SILVIA ANA (leaving Kristiansand)

Color Line, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 1996

The F/F Silvia Ana is the world's second largest single hull fast ferry, with a capasity of 1237 passengers and 200 cars,   Kristiansand –Hirtshals

2nd August 2006

See SOUTH  AMERICA SHIPS for photographs and  NOTES FOR CURRENT ROLE

SILVIA ANA (leaving Kristiansand)

Color Line, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 1996

The F/F Silvia Ana is the world's second largest single hull fast ferry, with a capasity of 1237 passengers and 200 cars,   Kristiansand –Hirtshals

photograph by John Mitchell,   21st August 2005

SPAARNEBORG

COBELFRET, Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 12,522 dwt, 1999

Gothenburg - Zeebrugge,        1st August 2006

STENA CARRIER

STENA LINES, Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 12,350 dwt,  2004, Gothenburg - Travemünde-

2nd August 2006

STENA FREIGHTER (in floating dock)

STENA GERMANICA

photograph by John Mitchell

STENA GERMANICA (B)

photograph by John Mitchell

21st August 2005

STENA JUTLANDICA

STENA LINE, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 29,619 grt, 1996, Gothenburg - Frederikshavn

1st August 2006

STENA SCANDINAVICA

STENA LINE, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 39,169 grt, 1988, Gothenburg - Keil

1st August 2006

STENA SCANRAIL

STENA LINE, Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship, 7,504 grt, 1973, rebuilt 1996, Gothenburg - Frederikshavn

VEGALAND

SolNiver Lines, Ro-Ro Cargo Ship,  12,008 dwt, 1979 [for sale Spring 2006]

bought by Imperial Ship Management.