Sunday 20th May 2012
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
P&O Ferries took delivery of its new €180 million ship Spirit of Britain today (5 January) during a handover ceremony at the stxeurope shipyard in Rauma, Finland.
The ship then followed a route cleared by icebreakers to commence its delivery voyage to Dover. The estimated time of arrival...Read more
We’re celebrating the impending arrival of the Spirit of Britain with a BIG GIVEAWAY!
We’ve hidden fantastic European holiday prizes, ferry travel and onboard shopping vouchers all over our virtual superferry. There’s even a special ‘Free P&O Ferries Travel for a Decade’ hidden in one of...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
It’s not just the ship that will be new when the Spirit of Britain enters service in just over 10 weeks time.
P&O Ferries is also taking the opportunity to improve the onboard offering and has invested a significant amount of time, customer research and...Read more
Photographer Brian Smith has recently returned from the shipyard in Finland with some fantastic shots of the new ships. Hope you enjoy them…
With the launch of the Spirit of Britain now only a few months away and with the Spirit of France looking more and more like her sister-ship by the day, it’s time for us to upgrade the New Ships website.
The site now includes a new look homepage...Read more
STX Europe, Finland. With work continuing at pace on both vessels now, I’ve decided to split the photo updates from the yard into Spirit of Britain and Spirit of France separate updates.
As mentioned previously much of the ongoing work on the Spirit of Britain involves the...Read more
