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LOI
Start of Production
Keel laid
10/8/1991 Launch
Sea trials
29/12/1991 Delivered to P&O Ferries
4/1/1992 Dover –  Zeebrugge route P&O Ferries service
1/12/2002 Arrived to Lloyd Werft for rebuild to passenger ferry. Build two decks to public areas
4/2003 New name Pride of Canterbury
2/5/2003 Rebuilding completed delivered  back to P&O Ferries
12/5/2003 Dover – Calais route
31/1/2008 Struck the wreck of SS Mahratta while manoeuvering into The Downs off the Kent coast during heavy weather. Damagen propeller,
saft and gearbox.
7/1/2012 Drydocking at A&P Tyne