MS SeaFrance Cézanne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MS SeaFrance Cézanne was a ferry launched in 1979 as Ariadne.[5] Starting life in the Mediterranean, she has spent the majority of her career serving the Dover-Calais cross channel ferry route with successive operators, Sealink, SNCF & SeaFrance, was taken out of service in February 2009 and scrapped in 2011–2012
Quick Facts History, General characteristics ...
Fiesta leaving Hamburg in 1989. | |
History | |
---|---|
Name | |
Owner |
|
Operator |
|
Port of registry | Belize, Belize [2] |
Ordered | 23 February 1979[3] |
Builder | Kockums Varv AB, Sweden[2] |
Yard number | 568[2] |
Launched | 13 October 1979[3] |
Christened | 13 October 1979[3] |
In service | February 1980[3] |
Out of service | 14 February 2009[4] |
Identification |
|
Fate | Scrapped in India 2011 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8,920 GRT[2] |
Length | 163.51 m (536 ft 5 in)[2] |
Beam | 23.04 m (75 ft 7 in)[2] |
Draught | 28.4 m (93 ft 2 in)[2] |
Propulsion | 2 × Sulzer 7RLA56[2] |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)[2] |
Close