Sunday 20th May 2012
P&O Ferries today (24 January) took delivery of its second new €180 million ship, Spirit of France, during a handover ceremony at the STX Europe shipyard in Rauma, Finland.
Spirit of France then began its 1,400 mile voyage to Dover under the command of Captain Steve...Read more
The Spirit of France took to the water for the first time last Friday (18th Feb) when she was floated out of her construction dock at the STX Europe shipyard in Rauma, Finland.
P&O Ferries CEO Helen Deeble and the ship’s senior master Captain Steve Johnson were...Read more
STX Europe, Finland. Normally I’d look to amaze you with stories of how temperatures in the yard have plumeted to -25, but with the artic weather we are currently experiencing here in the UK, there will be a few of you who currently have very...Read more
The Pride of Dover bows out of service in mid-December after more than twenty years on the Dover-Calais route for P&O Ferries.
Staff at the company will mark the end of an era when the ship makes its final return sailing from Dover at 23.55hrs on 15...Read more
Your mission (if you choose to accept it!) is to take what are arguably the best shops onboard any ferry and transform them into something even better. That was the mission impossible handed to P&O Ferries’ Head of Buying Neil Towns.
Neil has just recently returned...Read more
STX Europe, Finland. Pictures of both the Spirit of Britain and the Spirit of France taken in mid August.
With the Spirit of Britain now afloat, much of the recent development has been internal. Hopefully, we can begin to bring you pictures of the internal development...Read more
STX Europe, Finland. A landmark event in the construction of the first of the new vessels. This series of photographs shows the funnel being lifted from the quayside into position….
Lifting the...Read more
From technophobe!
Although I’m a technical dunce I thought I understood a bit about ship building, as I’ve been visiting ship yards for launches on and off since the early 1980s.
The way I’d approach building a ship it is a bit like the way I’d approach...Read more
I’ve been working on the ‘New Ship’ project since it started in the summer of 2007. Long days in Finland (literally – 23hrs of sunlight!) with the shipbuilders huddled round blank sheets of paper is how it all began. Looking back I feel...Read more
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