ccs147 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 RTE Radio documentary from 1993 called Ferry People about the St Killian II Ferry People 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 The globetrotting Jonathan Boonzaier has pictures here of a trip he took on the Spirit of Tasmania (ex-Peter Pan) in the late '90s: https://www.flickr.com/photos/worlddiscoverer/albums/72157714775113402/with/50025493598/ Not surprisingly, she was rather more original at this stage when compared to her sister the Val de Loire. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted September 3, 2020 Author Share Posted September 3, 2020 Parrot era BF. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
VikingVoyager Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 14 hours ago, hhvferry said: Parrot era BF. They don't make them like that anymore (thank goodness). Was that pre Caen then? Loved the next advert for "Bounce". That woman seemed so pleased that all her laundry woes were over. The Lady Expert looked a bit like Rebecca Front Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 Watching this is half an hour well spent. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Hyde Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 16 minutes ago, hhvferry said: Watching this is half an hour well spent. Yep only watched that myself last week. Very interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 Get your suits off Get your jeans off Feel that freedom right away Drive into Europe Townsend Thoresen The Great Getaway. uro Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Well, I'm sold! Link to post Share on other sites
Manxscorpio Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 14 minutes ago, Jim said: Well, I'm sold! Love the classic car...... Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 17 minutes ago, Jim said: Those two pre-war SMZ passenger ships were the most beautiful things on board including elements of streamline moderne which was so far ahead of British ships at the time: even the post-war Arnhem and Amsterdam with their floral quilts and exposed pipework were years behind. Great video and the host of international trains at Vlissingen is a reminder of a lost age of integrated transport. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 Some more on the pre-war Prinses Beatrix and Koningin Emma - they had quite amazing war records and were completely rebuilt as LSIs and then, both having survived, put back together again afterwards. Photo from here of them together during WW2 These are more on-board images. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
hhvferry Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 The Norland's original orange/brown interior with the working man's club aesthetic of the bars is nicely captured here - although there are some frankly doubtful looking people amongst our fellow passengers. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Stena Galloway Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 After watching the excellent Norland video I found this on the same channel. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Cabin-boy Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 17 hours ago, hhvferry said: although there are some frankly doubtful looking people amongst our fellow passengers A bit harsh! That's my entire family off on their annual holiday. Ed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 16 hours ago, Stena Galloway said: After watching the excellent Norland video I found this on the same channel. Is that the voice of Fred Dineage doing his finest Alan Whicker impersonation? Link to post Share on other sites
dojidave Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, Jim said: Is that the voice of Fred Dineage doing his finest Alan Whicker impersonation? How 😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LHCity Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Le Havre : Normandy Ferries Terminal / Irish Terminal in 70', with SS FRANCE (Le Havre / New York route) and SS ANTILLES (Le Havre / West French Indies route) 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Gareth Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Beautiful photo LHC. I think the Normandy Ferries vessel is Leopard. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
cvabishop Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Nice to see the elegant Antilles there although her interiors were reportedly a bit humdrum. She came to a sad end. I have a 1:1250 scale model of her. The image above can be seem towards the end of this series of photos.: 1 Link to post Share on other sites
The Ferry Man Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 On 19/09/2020 at 21:19, Stena Galloway said: After watching the excellent Norland video I found this on the same channel. I'm sure I have that on video somewhere! Link to post Share on other sites
ccs147 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Couple of 1 season wonders at Cork. From 1999 Venus (ex Dana Hafnia) that operated a short lived Cork to St Malo service for Swansea Cork Ferries. And from 2001 City of Cork (ex St Patrick II and Aurella) operated on the Cork Swansea route but was replaced in 2002 by the return of Superferry, 4 Link to post Share on other sites
ccs147 Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 She lasted a little longer in Cork than Venus or City of Cork but not much longer 😁 Fastnet Lines Julia First arrival in Cork from Swansea Alongside at Ringaskiddy photographed from Pont Aven 4 Link to post Share on other sites
LHCity Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Same ship, 46 years apart RED STAR 1 disarmed today in Salamis in October 2020 (seen here in Drapedzona near Piraeus). Ex VIKING III of Thoresen Car Ferries, later Townsend Thoresen, mainly operated since 1965, when it was commissioned from Southampton, providing daily connections with Le Havre and Cherbourg. It will be chartered by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (French Line) to disembark the last passengers of the FRANCE arriving for the last time in September 1974. Curiously, no one noticed that the last passengers of the last voyage of the FRANCE will land in Le Havre on a Norwegian ferry whose home port, OSLO would become that of FRANCE, 5 years later in May 1979 when it was renamed NORWAY by the shipowner Knut Kloster and to sail in the Caribbean. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
colin Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Travelled on Viking III sometime between 1967 and 69 I think. Link to post Share on other sites
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