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Building contract
Start of Production
8/9/1995 Keel laid
7/12/1996 Launch
12/7/1997 Delivered to Levantina Trasporti S.r.l., Bari, Italy
12/7/1997 Chartered to Norse Irish Ferries.
23/7/1997 Belfast – Liverpool route.
3/2001 New owner Belfast Freight Ferries
4/2002 New operator Norse Merchant Ferries.
17/6/2002 Birkenhead – Belfast route.
2004 UK flag, homeport Belfast
1/9/2005 New name Dublin Viking
2005 New operator Norfolk Line
2005 Birkenhead – Dublin route
12/7/2010 Norfolk Line sold to DFDS A/S
2/8/2010 New name Dublin Seaways
2/2011 Cuxhaven – Imminghamn route.
3/2/2011 Sold to Stena North Sea Ltd
2/4/2011 Arrived to Bremerhaven
15/4/2011 New name Stena Feronia
9/5/2011 Charter to DFDS Seaways, Klaipeda – Karlshamn route.
10/2011 End of charter , laid up at Klaipeda
11/2011 Laid up at Gdansk
22/1-5/2/2012 Stena Line Karlskrona – Gdynia route
6/2/2012 One week on Göteborg – Kiel route
20/2/2012 Birkenhead – Belfast route
7/3/2012 Collision with cargo ship Ocean Moon near Belfast
8/3/2012 Docking for reparation
25/3/2012 Charter to DFDS Seaways Kiel – Klaipeda route
4/2012 Laid up at Kiel
6/2012 Charter to FRS, Spain
6/2012 Algeciras – Tanger route
7/11/2012 Laid up at Algeciras
18/11/2012 Charter to Intershipping, Algeciras – Tanger Med route
6/2013 Cyprus flag
1/10/2014 Laid up at Algeciras later Malaga.
11/2014 Sailing to Belfast
20/11/2014 Replace Stena Mersey for docking time
1/2015 Stena Line Göteborg – Kiel route
20/1/2015 Sold to Strait Shipping Ltd, New Zealand.
mid 3/2015 Delivered to new owner.
4/2015 Drydocking and refurbished interior at Landskrona.
4/2015 New name Strait Feronia. New Zealand flag
7/2015 Bluebridge service Wellington – Picton route.