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June 17th 1973:
Launched as STENA NORDICA June 2nd
1974: Delivered to Stena Ab, Göteborg.
June 2nd 1974: Renamed STENA DANICA.
June 28th 1974: Commenced service
between Gothenburg - Frederikshavn.
January 1977 - April 1977: Rebuilt at Wilton Fijenoord, Rotterdam ,
extra deck inserted to raise the car deck height by approximately 2.3m to
facilitate commercial vehicle trailers. Side-sponsors added owing to
previous stability problems. December
1981: Renamed STENA NORDICA.
© John Jones
December 1981:
Renamed STENA NORDICA. April 1983:
Chartered to Regie voor Maritiem Transport, Ostend, Belgium (RMT).
Nigel Thornton Collection
May 2nd 1983:
Arrived at builders yard in Antwerp for conversion to new role. Amongst
things done was the moving of loading doors from port side to starboard
side.
Roy Thornton Collection
(right) and © Brian Fisher (right)
June 10th 1983:
Taken over by Nautica (Belgien) N.V. Ostend, Belgium.
June 16th 1983: Commenced service
between Ostend - Dover. August 1983:
Suffered complete engine failure and had to be withdrawn for repairs, which
lasted over a week. March 1984:
Renamed STENA NAUTICA. 1986 (late
Spring): SNCF formed a subsidiary company Dieppe Ferries to manage the
future of their Newhaven service May
14th 1986: Charter completed, taken over by Stena Cargo Line Ltd.,
Nassau, Bahamas. Laid up in Gothenburg.
November 20th 1986: Berthing trials in Newhaven and Dieppe.
April 19th 1987: Chartered to SNCF,
Dieppe, France. Renamed VERSAILLES. Simultaneously transferred to French
flag and commenced service between Newhaven - Dieppe.
© Brian Fisher
1988: Sold to
Overseas Equipment Ltd., Dieppe, France.
January 22nd 1990: Registered to Societé Propietaire des Navaires (SPN),
Paris, France. At the same time selling 49% of the ferry operations to Stena
Sealink Line UK, London, England. In future Sealink Dieppe Ferries would be
known as Sealink SNAT and would operate in a new livery.
© M Fournet
March 26th 1992:
Following months of industrial unrest Sealink SNAT announced that the
Newhaven to Dieppe was to be closed and or sold off. Following this
announcement the crews of the routes 2 vessels immediately went on strike.
April 1992: Its announced that the
Newhaven to Dieppe route had been purchased by Sealink Stena Line.
May 1st 1992: Chartered to Sealink
Stena Line Ltd, Ashford, England. Rebuilt at A.&P. Appledore, Southampton,
England.
©
Ken Smith
May 22nd 1992:
Commenced service between Newhaven - Dieppe.
November 1992,
Sheltering in Dover © Marconista
November 16th 1992: Sealink Stena Line officially changed its name to
Stena Sealink Line.
December 31st 1992: Sailed to Southampton to take over the Cherbourg
service. January 1993: Refit at A & P
Appledore, Southampton
© Ken Larwood
January 14th 1993: Expected to return to
the Newhaven service.
© Andreas Wörteler
July 12th 1995:
Agreement between Stena Sealink Line and French partners S.N.A.T. would
terminate from December 31st 1995. From that time onwards S.N.A.T. would
trade as SeaFrance.
© Andreas Wörteler
December 31st 1995: Stena Sealink
adopted the trading name on Stena Line.
March 3rd 1996: Final day between Newhaven - Dieppe.
March 5th 1996: Commenced service
between Fishguard - Rosslare. February
4th 1996 - April 9th 1996: Operated between Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire.
April 10th 1996: Completed charter.
Registered in the French ship-register.
© Andreas Wörteler
June 1996: Renamed
SEAFRANCE MONET. Registered to G.I.E. Versabil, Calais, France. Rebuilt in
Dunkerque.
July 3rd 1996: Commenced service between Calais - Dover.
April 24th 1997: Laid up in reserve at
Dunkerque. December 6th 1997 - December
7th 1997: Operated between Calais - Dover, thereafter laid up in
Dunkerque. May 1998: Laid up in Le
Havre. March 29th 2000: During
stormy weather, collided with a pier in Calais. Sustained stabiliser damage.
May 18th 2000: Sold to Naviera Armas
S.A., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain in broken down condition.
May 24th 2000: Towed from Dunkerque to
Vigo, Spain for engine repairs. May
30th 2000: Arrived in Vigo.
© Ulrich Streich
September 11th 2000:
Renamed VOLCAN DE TACANDE. Commenced service with Armas around Canary
Islands. September 2000: Commenced
service between Los Cristianos - San Sebastian de la Gomera - La Estaca.
January 30th 2005: On a voyage from
Los Cristians to San Sebastián de La Gomera vessel lost all power due to a
flooded engine room. All passengers had to be evacuated. Eventually towed to
Ports of The Palms where she was later declared a total loss.
May 2005: Sold for breaking. (at the
time of writing 22/06/2005 it was being a decision was being reached whether
the place of scrapping should be Grand Canaria or elsewhere)
June 2005: Revealed that she was sold
for breaking in Turkey.
© Selim San
September 11th 2005:
Arrived Aliaga, Turkey for scrapping.
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