History

	LOI
	Building contract
	Building started
1969	Keel laid
9/2/1970	Launch
	Sea trial
	Second sea trial
10/6/1970	Delivered to Lion Ferry Ab, Halmstad, Sweden
19/6/1970	Portland, USA – Yarmouth, Canada route.
1/1976	Charter to accommodation ship to Stavanger, Norway
27/11/1976	Lion Ferry service Varberg – Grenå route.
17/4/1978	Charter to Brittany Ferries, Morlaix, France. New name Prince of Brittany.
17/4/1978	Portsmouth – St Malo route.
19/2/1979	Plymouth – Santander route.
1/1980	Sold to Brittany Ferries S.A, Morlaix ,France.
1/1981	Charter to Irish Ferries, Ireland. Rosslare – Le Havre and Rosslare – Cherbourg route.
	Back to Portsmouth – St Malo route.
30/12/1988	New owner Soc. Econ. Mixte d’Arm Naval du Calvados, Caen, France.New name Reine Mathilde
30/12/1988	Refurbished by Jos L Meyer Werft, Papenburg .
17/3/1989	Portsmouth – Caen and Portsmouth – Ouistreham routes.
10/4/1990	Engine room fire. Towed to Le Havre.
6/7/1990	Back to service.
2/1991	Sold to Marne Invest Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas
9/1991	New name Beauport.
17/10/1991	Rebuild by Husband’s Shipyard, Southampton
28/1/1992	Charter to British Channel Island Ferries. Poole – Jersey – Guernsey route.
31/10/1993	Laid up at Southampton
1994	New owner Beauport Shipping Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas
6/1994	Charter to Stern Maritime Line. Bari – Cecme route.
9/1994	Chartered to Hellenic Inter Ferries. Brindisi – Igoumenitsa – Patras route.
4/1995	Laid up after operator went bankrupt.
10/6/1995	Chartered to Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation, (COMANAV) Seté – Nador route.
10/1995	Laid up at La Spezia, Italy.
4/1996	Chartered to Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation, (COMANAV)
5/1996	Chartered out to the porn company Private, which uses vessels as a floating sex club around the Mediterranean and up to Copenhagen. Got the artist name “PRIVATE LADY”.
6/1996	Chartered to Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation, (COMANAV) Seté – Nador route.
	Laid up winters at Marseille.
5/2000	Chartered to Sancak Lines, Turkey. Brindisi – Cesmé route.
20/9/2000	Laid up at Marseille.
12/2000	Chartered to Government of Trinidad & Tobago, Port Of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
10/12/2000	Port Of Spain – Scarborough (Tobago) route.
1/7/2005	Laid up for sale.
7/2005	Sold to scrap
15/9/2005	Beached to Alang, India. Scrapped.