MS Bari

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Bari as Isla de Botafoc
History
Name
  • Altair (2021–2021)
  • Bari (2010–2021)
  • Winner 9 (2010–2010)
  • Isla de Botafoc (1999–2010)
  • Stena Cambria (1991–1999)
  • St Anselm (1980–1991) [1]
Operator
Port of registry Limassol, Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus [1]
Builder Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number1715
Launched5 December 1979 [2]
Christened4 December 1979 [2]
Completed1980
Maiden voyage27 October 1980 [3]
In service1980
Out of service2021
Identification IMO number:  7813937 [1]
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage12,705  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length129.65 m (425.4 ft) [1]
Beam21.62 m (70.9 ft) [1]
Draught4.84 m (15.9 ft) [1]
Propulsion2xPielstick 16PC2 [1]
Speed18  kn (33.3 km/h) [1]
Capacity1,125 passengers [1]
Bari operating at the port of Bari in 2019. Traghetto Bari.jpg
Bari operating at the port of Bari in 2019.

The MS Bari was a ferry built in 1980 as the St Anselm [4] for Sealink. Starting life on the Dover-Calais, she operated with Ventouris Ferries in her last routes in the Mediterranean.

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MS Bari started life as the St Anselm, order by and for Sealink services in the English Channel. [3] She was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast [3] on 5 December 1979 and completed her maiden voyage on 27 October 1980. [3]

After two years in service, on 31 December 1982, [3] the St Anselm returned to Belfast for a £750,000 extension to her aft decks. [3] This extension provided an enlarged duty-free shopping area and additional accommodation, increasing her tonnage by 402  GT to 7,405  GT and her passenger capacity to 1,400. [3] On 28 March 1983 during her trip back to Dover through the Irish Sea, the St Anselm was temporarily brought into service on the Fishguard-Rosslare route following the failure of Stena Normandica 's engines. [3]

In 1990, the St Anselm was displaced from the Dover-Calais route by Sealink 's acquisition of the Fantasia, the St Anselm instead took up a service operating between Folkestone and Boulogne. [3] Not long after this transition, Sealink was acquired by Stena Line, in 1991 the St Anselm was transferred to Holyhead, [3] being renamed the Stena Cambria as a refit relief during February and March, [3] briefly returning to Dover before resuming service in the Irish Sea in July that same year. [3]

Stena Line

In July 1995, SNAT announced they would be terminating the pooling agreement that had been in place with Stena Sealink Line, which as a result, dropped the "Sealink" name, becoming just Stena Line. As a result of the loss of the two French vessels, Stena Line transferred the Stena Cambria and the Stena Empereur back to the Dover-Calais route for the 1996 season. [5] In March 1997 she provided refit relief in Stranraer and on 3 May 1997 became the last conventional ferry to sail out of Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead having provided overhaul relief for the Stena Explorer. [3] In March 1998 she transferred to the Newhaven-Dieppe route under the newly formed P&O Stena Line, staying there until the routes withdrawal in January 1999. [5]

Post P&O Stena Line

Following the routes withdrawal in January 1999, the Stena Cambria was laid up in Zeebrugge awaiting sale, [5] eventually being purchased by UMAFISA, entering service for them between Barcelona and Ibiza that November [5] as the Isla de Botafoc. In August 2003, UMAFISA and the Isla de Botafoc were acquired by rivals, Balearia. [5] She continued services with Balearia to Ibiza and Menorca [5] until her eventual sale to Ventouris Ferries of Greece in 2010, briefly being renamed Winner 9 and then to the Bari. [1]

Sister ships

MS Bari has three sister ships;

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "M/F Bari". Ferry-site.dk. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  2. 1 2 "MS Stena Cambria Part One". HHVFerry.com. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Stena Cambria". Sealink-Holyhead.com. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  4. ↑ "Stena Cambria". SimplonPC.co.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "MS Stena Cambria Part Two". HHVFerry.com. Retrieved 28 June 2010.

Bibliography

  • Cowsill, Miles; Hendy, John (2006). The Saints go marching on: British Rail's Last Cross-Channel Ferries. Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire: Ferry Publications. ISBN   187194774X.
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